1981 · kung-fu · comedy · shaw-brothers
My Young Auntie
Directed by Lau Kar-leung2h 1m1981
Cheng Tai-nun is a young martial-arts champion. She marries an elderly landowner so that he can keep his estate from falling into the greedy and corrupt hands of his brother, Yu Yung-Sheng.
Our read: My Young Auntie (1981) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded kung-fu · comedy · shaw-brothers entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured kung-fu / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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