“The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful” Chinese Theatrical Poster
Kara Hui (Mrs K), the martial arts icon famous for appearing in Shaw Brothers films like My Young Auntie and Eight Diagram Pole Fighter, is back with a film that may be the answer to Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden.
In The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful, Madame Tang (Hui) colludes and mediates between the government and the private businesses for the benefits of her all-female family. One case does not go according to plan, and an entire family close to Madame Tang fall victim to a gruesome murder. Ambition, desire and lust eventually change Tang’s relationships with her own family forever.
The Bold, the Corrupt, and the Beautiful is directed by Yang Ya-che (Orz Boyz) and also stars Ke-Xi Wu (The Road to Mandalay) and Vicky Chen (Liquidator).
The film opens on November 24, 2017. Don’t miss its Trailer below (via AFS):
the answer to Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden
A Chinese movie as bald as Wok’s masterpiece, are you kidding? Not that it son’t .be good, but…