english title | Rear entrance |
original title | 後門 |
year | 1959 |
country | Hong-Kong |
director | LI Han-Hsiang - 李翰祥 | |
actor | LU Chi | |
WONG Oi-Ming | ||
WANG Yin - 王引 | ||
WONG Chung - 王鍾 | ||
Margaret TU Chuan | ||
MA Xiaonong | ||
LI Hsiang Chun | ||
KO Hsiang | ||
King HU - 胡金銓 | ||
HONG Bo | ||
CHING Miao | ||
CHAO Ming | ||
HU Die | ||
producer | Run Run SHAW | |
scriptwriter | WANG Yueting | |
original story | XU Xu | |
artistic director | CHEN Chi-Jui | |
editor | CHIANG Hsing-Lung | |
cinematographer | HO Lu Ying | |
assistant director | KAO Li |
genres | drama |
duration | 99mn |
production studio | Shaw Brothers 邵氏 |
Winner of Best Picture at the 7th Asian Film Festival, Rear Entrance is a moving tale about a childless woman (Shanghai superstar Butterfly Woo in her triumphant screen comeback) who cares for an emotionally battered girl (future teen idol Wang Ai-ming). The drama made a star of the lovely Li Hsiang-chun (who plays the girl's mother), and demonstrates director Li Han-hsiang's mastery of emotional nuance in a genre quite different from his other 1959 masterpiece, the Chinese ghost story Enchanting Shadow.