My Young Auntie
by Chia-Liang Liu
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Actor: Chia-Liang Liu, Hou Hsiao, Kara Hui, Lung Wei Wang, Tung-kua AiDirector: Chia-Liang Liu
Brand: Wellspring Media INC
Writer: Chia-Liang Liu
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Chinese (Original Language); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 121 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-19
Audience Rating: Unrated
Model: 79963
Studio: Weinstein Company
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- A Shaw Brothersic way ahead of its time, My Young Auntie is a young woman who marries the dying patriarch of a martial arts family in order to save the inheritance from evil relatives - even if she has to fight them herself! With a kung fu heroine, spectacular fighting sequences, slapstick comedy, and even a swashbuckling swordfight or two, this film has everything a martial arts fan could wish fo
DVD Reviews of My Young Auntie
DVD Review: a swaggerful young auntie
Summary: 4 Stars
Not that the gorgeous, skillful Kara Hui starred in so many classic martial arts pictures, but for damn sure she made an impact in her day. MY YOUNG AUNTIE - which to me is much cooler than its alternative title FANGS OF THE TIGRESS - is Kara Hui's breakout film. Much like Cheng Pei Pei before her and Michelle Yeoh after her, Kara Hui had no formal martial arts training and so relied heavily on her dance background to help her transition into martial arts cinema. Her performance in MY YOUNG AUNTIE earned her Best Actress honors in the 1982 inaugural Hong Kong Film Awards.
She plays Cheng Tai-Nan, a young woman who, at a dying old man's request, marries him so that his wealth and holdings don't end up in the clutches of his evil brother. Lau Kar-Leung (a.k.a. Liu Chia-Liang) directs and, as is his wont, he gives himself a plum role, this time that of Cheng Tai-Nan's benevolent nephew. I'm certain it won't be lost on the viewer that Lau Kar-Leung is much older than his very young auntie. An amusing early scene on the docks certainly mines this arsebackwards age discrepancy. But Lau Kar-Leung is a gracious filmmaker and he allows his two younger stars to get the brunt of screen time. And the camera loves, loves, loves Kara Hui, with her exquisite smirk and elegance and attitude and mad skills.
MY YOUNG AUNTIE tries on several hats. It's a kung fu actioner, a zany comedy, and, at one point, a musical. Humor being such a subjective animal, whether you favor MY YOUNG AUNTIE or not will ultimately depend on if you can stand the slapstick routines which dominate the film. Admittedly, for me, I think its two hours' running time may be too long, and by that I mean that it allows for too much silliness to go down. The sequence with the masquerade ball is particularly brutal. There were some funny elements, absolutely (like the above mentioned scene at the docks and, later, the bit with the aunt coaching her old out-of-shape relatives-in-law thru a training regimen, thus giving us the hilarious "Pile Up The Monks" maneuver). Lau Kar-Leung made a point of introducing Cheng Tai-Nan as a stern and dignified widowed aunt, but this is only so that he could present her in later scenes in which she becomes the brunt of jokes. And it always seems to happen during Cheng Tai-Nan's forays into modern womanhood. Although, to be honest, mostly it's her grand-nephew getting her into scrapes. In a way, Lau Kar-Leung is wryly commenting on the westernization of early 20th century China. Still, a glammed up Kara Hui gets a chance to show off her loverly legs.
The grand-nephew Ah Tao is played by Hou Hsiao, and his kung fu is solid, except that his character here is supremely annoying. Ah Tao (whose English name is "Charlie") is a westernized college student and exudes a cockiness that is initially unwarranted. The same age as his grand-aunt, the two right away embark on this sometimes funny, hotly contested rivalry which also doubles as this barely concealed courtship. Their relationship drives much of the story.
Kara Hui's performance throughout and the last 30 minutes are the film's saving grace. The last half hour comprises a series of extended fight sequences, and the fight choreography is awesome. Somewhere in the final act, director Lau Kar-Leung says "Heck with this!" and gets back in front of the camera and proceeds to mete out some harsh assskickings. There are several highlights during this half hour, some of them owned by Kwan Yung Moon's thuggish practitioner of hard Qi Gong. That last rumble between Lau Kar-Leung and Wong Lung Wei is also sweet and is rife with various Hung Gar techniques (the crane, tiger, crab, and even a monkey stealing a peach).
Dragon Dynasty DVDs typically come with top notch bonus stuff, and no different here: an audio commentary from film critics/scholars David Chute & Andy Klein (Bey Logan must've been sick or something); bios on the commentators (because absolutely no one wanted to know); an interview with Kara Hui (00:13:05 minutes long with English sub-titles) and an interview with David Chute & Andy Klein who at this point may be getting too much pub (00:07:35); the original theatrical trailer and the New Home Video trailer for MY YOUNG AUNTIE; and a stills gallery.
Kara Hui made several other terrific martial arts films. Off the top of my head: INVINCIBLE POLE FIGHTER, MARTIAL CLUB, LEGENDARY WEAPONS OF CHINA, and THE LADY IS THE BOSS. Also, fans of martial arts star Gordon Liu may be curious to know that he has a cameo in MY YOUNG AUNTIE as Ah Tao's sidekick. You'll know him by his ridiculous wig and that guitar he strums. He's definitely not channeling the monk San Te in this one.
Description of My Young Auntie
(Action/Comedy) A young woman marries a dying senior member of a martial arts family in order to protect her family?s fortunes, leading to a duel with a greedy relative.Bestsellers in DVD
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