Review of Jian nu

Jian nu (1994)
5/10
One of the weirdest Hong Kong movie
9 December 2012
This is a difficult film to rate. It's made beautifully, but what kind of a movie is it ? It features Pauline Chan, so it's probably a Cat 3 movie, and it is soft porn in a way. But it also has rather strange story involving weird death, lesbianism, and surprisingly good sword fighting scenes.

All the actors in this movie can act, and the fighters do incredible moves. But the story is very unusual. It's in a way more trashy than it needs to be.

The movie is gorgeously made. Every scene is meticulously shot. The background is always beautiful. But there's kind of a strange cruelty to the whole thing. It's kind of a weird psycho drama.

One thing I can say is that the actors in this movie deserved a better role. All of them has good on screen presence, and they should have gone on to make really good movies.

I haven't seen a strange movie like this since I saw Prostitutes 92 which was made around the same time as this movie. Maybe I should check to see if the same people wrote and directed the two movies.
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