Woman Revenger + The Women’s Revenge + Intro

The director of Never Too Late to Repent continued his connection to the Taiwan Black Cinema cycle with this outrageous entry.

Ling, a dance teacher living in Hong Kong, heads to Japan to investigate the murder of her childhood friend. Throw in a vicious bunch of gangsters and a batch of stolen cocaine and you have something of an exploitation classic.

Plus/ The short film The Women’s Revenge will screen before the feature.

The Women’s Revenge 

Dir Hui-yu Su/TW 2020/17 mins 

Prior to Taiwan’s lifting of martial law, a group of films influenced by the European wave of exploitation movies featuring the motif of “women’s revenge” was produced in the 1980s. These films portray some severely oppressed heroines before culminating in bloody plots of vengeance. The Women’s Revenge uses Taiwanese exploitation movies as a starting point to reexamine the problems of body regulation, seeking social novelty, modern discomforts and mediatised bodies. It also discusses how plots based on feminism have been turned into exploitation movies, reflects on the misunderstanding and exploitation of female sexuality in the system of image, and exposes how the contemporary body is manipulated by image technologies.

This film is screening with the support of the Taipei Representative Office in the UK and the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan (R.O.C.), Taiwan Film & Audiovisual Institute, and Taiwan Cinema Toolkit