Lost Souls (1980 film)
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| Lost Souls | |
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| Directed by | Mou Tun-fei |
| Edited by | Chiang Hsing-Lung |
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Running time | 89 minutes[1] |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$2.47 million |
Lost Souls (Chinese: 打蛇) is a 1980 Hong Kong film directed by Mou Tun-fei. The film is about three young men from Mainland China who swim across the Deep Bay to Hong Kong. The three are held captive by slave dealers and deal with the miserable fate as they are subject to torture by them.
The film was a Shaw Brothers production from director Mou Tun-fei under the name T. F. Mou.[1] Actor and future director Teddy Chan was in the film and described it as a difficult shoot due to the explicit nature of the film.
On its release, a reviewer in City Entertainment Film Biweekly described its reception to be poor, while both the original review and a later review from AllMovie found that any value found in early scenes was lost in repeated scenes of torture as the film progresses.[2][3]
Teddy Chan, who had acted as an extra previously in earlier Shaw Brothers Studio films, had his first speaking role in Lost Souls.[4] Chan had over 20 days of shooting dialogue scenes. He said working on Lost Souls was difficult as hwas acting in front of a group of nude women and that each day of filming was full of scenes of violence and bloodshed.[4]
Peggy Chiao described Lost Souls as belonging to the Hong Kong New Wave. She said it was part of the wave that began to produce films with scenes where the violence is exaggerated.[5]