The Window
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Release date | Oct 4, 1968 |
Genre | Drama |
Director | Kong Lung |
Production country | Hong Kong |
Production companies | Tse Brother's Motion Picture Production Co. |
Run time | 106 min. |
Lung Kong’s first color feature expands on thematic concerns supplanted in The Story of a Discharged Prisoner made one year before, situating issues of social reform within an impassioned romantic melodrama. The relationship between a career criminal and a blind girl (a stunning performance by Josephine Siao) form a portrait of marginalized life in a rapidly-modernizing Hong Kong. The profound chemistry between Patrick Tse and Josephine Siao onscreen served as the primary inspiration for the famed hit man-blind girl pairing in John Woo’s award-winning film The Killer (1989).