1969 · drama · shaw-brothers · youth
Dead End
Directed by Chang Cheh1h 45m1969
In the mid-sixties Chang Cheh changed the face of female dominated films with his male dominated, violent kung-fu films. Dead End was the start of a new force that lasted 6 years, the first film to star David Chiang and Ti Lung under director Chang's discerning eye. The trouble all begins when Chen Hung-lieh's character disapproves of Ti Lung's character courting his sister.
Our read: Dead End (1969) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded drama · shaw-brothers · youth entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured drama / shaw-brothers, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
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