A 1958 Chinese noir where love drowns in factory shadows and desperation.
Wan Jialiang, a factory worker, and Lu Xiuzhen fall in love and live together. Hou Liang is supported by Dong Yaqin, his cousin, and their lives improve. Desperate to get rid of Jane, who is pregnant, Jialiang plans to make her fall into the sea and die.
Direction
Ho Meng-Hua's early melodrama before his horror pivot.
Production
Rare surviving example of 1950s Hong Kong leftist cinema.
Director
Ho Meng-Hua
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made by Great Wall Film Company, a leftist studio that fled Shanghai for Hong Kong during political purges.
The sea-as-grave motif reflects anxieties about migration and impermanence in 1950s Hong Kong refugee culture.
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