A deadly secret 
Movie Info: Director: Mou Tun Fei
Cast: Yueh Hua, Jason Pai Piao, Ha Kwong Li, Tong Kam Tong, Dick Wei
Original Titel: Lian cheng jue
Production Country: Hong Kong 1980 review:
A DEADLY SECRET is an odd film. It's a kung fu flick directed by Mou Tun Fei (or T.F. Mous) during his three year stay at the Shaw Brothers studios before he went on to direct the horrific MEN BEHIND THE SUN and BLACK SUN: THE NANKING MASSACRE. While A DEADLY SECRET isn't exactly "pure Mous", it is still surprisingly gruesome, sadistic, bizarre and downbeat for a SB kung fu flick.
The plot involves a man named Ting Dien (Jason Pai Piao) who is kept in prison by a sadistic magistrate (Yueh Hua, INTIMATE CONFESSIONS OF A Chinese COURTESAN, CLANS OF INTRIGUE) and frequently tortured. Why? He knows the titular deadly secret, a secret location he was told of by a kung fu master that harbors untold riches. Once the magistrate finds out this his daughter Seung Wa (played by lovely Taiwanese beauty Shih Szu, best known for her role as the spunky kung fu fighting younger sister in LEGEND OF THE 7 GOLDEN VAMPIRES), also knows the secret, he buries her alive.
Mous' direction in this film is quite fluent and energetic, with lots of camera movement and the film's color scheme is even a bit on the brownish and muted side. It's overall a very entertaining kung fu flick and while not even as violent as several of Chang Cheh's films such as VENGEANCE and THE BOXER FROM SHANTUNG, it still has moments of Mou-esquire grotesquery, such as a torture scene where Mous shows us in exquisite detail Ting Dien's agony and the blood dripping from the torture device. Show huge amounts of blood shed? Sure, lots of filmmakers do that. Revel in a sequence where a character is viciously tortured with a device designed to tear his rectum apart and bury the love interest alive? Only in T.F. Mous' world.
LANGUAGE: Chinese
SUBTITLE: English
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89 min
Ca. 730 mb
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