Synopsis:
"A Japanese officer, of Chinese decent,
can no longer tolerate the disdain his family has towards
his political convictions and brutal ways. He decides to punish
his family by imprisoning them in a war-prison where torture
is the rule of thumb and all other prisoners have been brought
for political reasons.
The inmates though are planning their escape
and with the help of the resistance will make one daring journey
to potential freedom. This rare Asian Women-in-Prison film
is directed by Le Ho Chang & stars Ko Chang, Dae Keun
Lee, Mi Ran Jun." - from Xploitedcinema
My oppinion:
I've always had a soft spot for WIP movies,
and I've never seen one of these from Taiwan, so I though
I had to give this one a go. To get it off my chest right
away, it wasn't very good.. First of all, it has no nudity,
and what is a WIP without soft core nudity?! Another thing
was the acting, which at some points was awful, especially
the fat lady really annoyed me.. And all the scenes of "group
crying" by the inmates were laughable, especially when they
were talking about why they were in prison. There was one
thing that was worse then the acting though, and that was
the dubbing (if you can even call it that..) The subtitles
were obviously made for a different audio track, as the subtitles
were telling their own story while the actors didn't speak
at all.. And this happened a lot! It did have a couple of
nice scenes as well though. There's some fun fighting scenes,
a couple of scenes of torture and some other interesting scenes
which made it interesting enough not to get too boring. The
bloodiest scene of the movie had been cut out, but was included
as an extra on the X-rated Cult DVD. Unless you're a big fan
of the genre, I'd stay away from this one! I couldn't find
this movie on IMDB. hkflix.com provides a aka. title which
match a movie on IMDB, but I think it might be the wrong one,
as the cast/crew names on the cover don't match the names
on IMDB, and the release year is 4 years wrong. The one user
comment on IMDB is obviously for another movie as well..
My rating:  
Buy "The Great Escape From Womens Prison"
at: Xploitedcinema
or HKFlix
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