Taiwan Black Movies

An insight look to the explosion of B cinema in Taiwan during the end of the 70’s and the early 80’s and how those movies made an impact in Taiwan society of that era, being a reflection of it… Through interviews with movie directors who worked in those films, such as Chu Yen pIng, producers and stars of those films as Yang chia Yun. The director of this documentary, Ho Chi jan, illustrates this interesting cinematic journey with numerous clips of those films, exploring the genre that was a mixed of exploitation cinema with tons of violence and sexuality, where the “Femme-Avenger” Genre was born, with trash classics as “Woman Revenger”, with Elsa Yeung playing for the first time a role that she would play countless of times in many different movies, that co-existed with “social-realist crime films”, such as “Never Too Late to Repent”, considered the pioneer of the […]

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