cult film ghost talent-Director Gui Zhihong is a strange flower in the Shaw Brothers movie. After his film was re-excavated, restored, and published, many young cult fans became his fans. Although Gui Zhihong has long since passed away.
The Shaw Brothers movie "Female Concentration Camp" in 1973 is the best one of the few Chinese "concentration camp" movies that exist. This film is the number one work of Shaw's "International Film Development Project", and it is definitely a big production among Shaw's films. The background of the story is related to the Chinese Expeditionary Force, which took place in the southwest during the Anti-Japanese War. The Japanese devils throw the British and American nurses of the International Red Cross, the nuns in the church, and the female underground party into the concentration camps built in simple bamboo houses for inhuman torture.
In the film, actors from seven countries including China, Japan, Britain, the United States, France, and the Netherlands participated in the film. The shooting location also went out of Shaw's studio and built a large number of them on the back mountain of the studio. At the same time, the wide screen with the largest frame at the time was used for the exterior scene, and it was shot with a wide-angle lens, which seemed quite atmospheric. The number of extras in the film may also be the largest in Shaw Brothers movies, and it may be the scale of all members.
The movie starring three foreign girls are said to be famous porn stars in the world at that time. They are mainly functional roles, and there is no way to talk about their acting skills. The most eye-catching Chinese actor is the Japanese female officer-Red Devil played by Liu Huiru. Her performance is very good, and she is not inferior to the bad women in the above-mentioned movies! Liu Huiru was also the bravest and most avant-garde actress of that era.
The film is not limited to exploitative films. The second half of the film shows the escape of six women, the chase of devils, and even spies and secret treasures. It's a wave of unrest. It's dizzying. A short martial arts blasting scene was also filmed in the middle, and several martial arts stars came to guest appearances. It was obvious that Shaw attached great importance to this international plan. I don’t know how the film’s box office is. Did it also make a lot of foreign exchange?
The hero in the film has found Luo Lie ,He and a foreign girl also had a dewy affair, which seemed a bit abrupt, far less eye-catching than Liu Huiru's play with another foreign girl.
This movie may be too international, so that Gui Zhihong's personal characteristics are not very useful, so the evaluation on Douban is not high. In fact, "Female Concentration Camp" is very exciting, I think it is much more exciting than those small-cost ghost movies by Gui Zhihong! It is also a big wave worth mentioning in the ocean of Shaw Brothers movies.
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