Man qing shi da ku xing
Directed by:
Bosco LamCinematography:
Tony King-fai MiuComposer:
Hao Weng WenCast:
Lawrence Ng, Tommy Wong, Keith Siu-Kei Lee, Ching Mai, Julie Lee, Elvis Tsui, Mark Yiu-fai Cheung, Kei-hei Leung, Kingdom Yuen, Paul Lo, Aman Chang, Fan Lo (more)Plots(1)
A beautiful young woman named Little Cabbage is sold by her family to a wealthy scholar named Yang in order to become his future concubine. However, Yang's overbearing wife becomes jealous of Little Cabbage and arranges to have her married off to a well-endowed peasant. When Little Cabbage's new husband is found dead, poisoned by a powerful aphrodisiac, Little Cabbage and Yang are brought in front of a bloodthirsty court to face charges of conspiring to commit murder. Maintaining their innocence, Little Cabbage and Yang are forced to endure unspeakable torture at the hands of a corrupt judge in an attempt to make them confess. Cleverly told in a series of flashbacks, this horrific and hilarious film features wall-to-wall sex and violence, culminating in an explosive "climax" unlike anything you've seen before. (Vinegar Syndrome)
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Gentle eroticism, wild sex, physical violence and a lot of humour, all dressed up in comedic and fantasy garb. Each character has a distinct nature and plays a clear role throughout the story, which is about an effort to prove innocence before the sentence is carried out. By Chinese standards, this is a perfectly normal, mainstream story about forbidden love that looks at sex with humor, at physical punishment with perverse pleasure and at romantic love with picturesque poetry. By our standards, it is very exotic entertainment and mandatory viewing for all fans of Chinese culture. You have seen Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, but you surely don’t know that you can also have wild sex while flying between tree branches.
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A Chinese Torture Chamber Story appears to be a historical film, but that's just a facade because, in reality, it's a multi-genre pop culture work that once again proves it's possible to combine all possible elements and still extract something meaningful, hold it together, and make it entertaining. A comedy is a comedy when the audience laughs, and in this case, I found myself amused at times.
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