Red Shoes Solves the Mystery Case

Dir: Chu Kea
Orig Story: Tong Tik-sang
Prod Co: Lap Tat
Cast: Chan Kam-tong, Fung Wong Nui, Law Kim-long, Au Fung-ming, Poon Yat On
1959 / B&W / D Beta / Cantonese / 105min

Sam-fung (Poon Yat On) falls in love with the widow Lau-kiu (Fung Wong Nui) and kills his own wife in order to elope with her. The couple cut off the wife's head and bury it in the yard of the government compound. Then they set up Yuk-kwai (Au Fung-ming), Lau-kiu's sister-in-law, for Lau-kiu's murder by putting her embroidered shoes on the corpse and placing the corpse by a ditch. However, they have dropped one shoe in haste. Yuk-kwai and her lover Tsz-hing (Law Kim-long) are sentenced to death but Wai-ming (Chan Kam-tong), the Head of the Prefecture, reopens the case with the help of the shoe he found near the ditch as a clue. This film is rich in the elements of mystery, and the meticulous process of investigation makes it a true detective story. The scene in which the embroidered shoes are matched is portrayed in a most captivating manner.