Teddy Girls

Angry teen Josephine (Josephine Siao Fong-fong) assaults a man in a brawl and is sentenced to a reform school, where she befriends a single mother (Nancy Sit) and a bar girl (Meng Li). When her mother is scammed by her lover, Josephine breaks out with her friends to exact revenge. Filmed at a reform school and real locations, this juvenile-delinquency drama was a big hit. Sit transforms herself from a teen sweetheart to a rebellious young woman, exuding a strong presence with a fiery performance. Often speaking in vulgar street slangs, her character is driven by a ferocious insolence towards the cold, hard reality. ‘It's better to die than to live in this world!' The line she delivers in the film with raw and impassioned condemnation is a powerful expression of youthful furor.

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