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Fortress of Flesh and Blood

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Professor Lo Yeung-guo (Hou Yao) and his students escape death from the Japanese army, and call on villagers in the countryside to form a guerrillas group. His son Lo Yung (Lau Hark-suen), however, indulges in debauchery. Entrapped by the Japanese, chicken-hearted Yung leaks information about the guerrilla that leads to deaths and injuries in the group. Yeung-guo reprimands his son for being an invisible traitor, inflicting even more harm than an outright traitor. Placing righteousness before family, he decides to execute his own son. As a writer-director-actor in the film, Hou Yao proclaimed his unwavering stance on resistance on the screen, and delivered a scathing attack on the cowardly ‘invisible traitors‘ at that time. Not long after, Hou was sadly arrested and executed by the Japanese army in Singapore.

Directed byHou Yao

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Status
Released
Runtime
1h 38m
Language
CN
Released
June 15, 1938
Studios
Wenhua Film Company

Featuring

Cast & crew

10 credited
Starring
Hou Yao

Hou Yao

Nancy Wan-Seung Chan

Junchao Jiang

Junchao Jiang

Wong Sau-nin

Wong Cho-San

Wong Cho-San

Lau Hak-Suen

Lau Hak-Suen

Tan Lo

San Baak Kui Wing

Lau Kwai-Hong

Lau Kwai-Hong

Ng Siu-shan

Creative team
Directed by
Hou Yao
Hou Yao
Written by
Hou Yao
Hou Yao
Produced by
Yeung Yam-Ming

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