Dir: Ng Wui
Orig Story: Cao Yu
Scr: Cheng Kang
Prod Co: Wah Kiu
Cast: Pak Yin, Lo Duen, Cheung Ying, Mui Yee, Bruce Lee, Wong Man-lei
1957 | B&W | DCP (Digitised from 35mm) | Cantonese | 125min

This is a work of historical importance. The debut project of Wah Kiu, one of Cantonese cinema's ‘Big Four' that had greatly impacted our film history's development, is adapted from the May Fourth-era play of the same title, one of the most important theatrical works of modern China. It's also the only film in which Bruce Lee, playing an idealistic student, wears a Zhongshan suit! The story is informed by contempt and anger towards the class injustice and patriarchal corruptions of traditional China, coloured by love and incest, jealousy and resentment. All these are executed by director Ng Wui's orchestrated mise-en-scène, including a controlled performance by Lee that showcases the future kungfu fighter's gentler side.