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Rear Entrance VCD

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Product Title: Rear Entrance 後門 後门 Rear Entrance Rear Entrance
Artist Name(s): Wong Ai Ming | Hu Die | Li Han Hsiang | Li Hsiang Chun | Wang Yin 王愛明 | 胡蝶 | 李翰祥 | 李香君 | 王引 王爱明 | 胡蝶 | 李翰祥 | 李香君 | 王引 Wong Ai Ming | Hu Die | 李翰祥（リー・ハンシャン） | Li Hsiang Chun | Wang Yin Wong Ai Ming | Hu Die | Li Han Hsiang | Li Hsiang Chun | Wang Yin
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Release Date: 2005-04-28
Language: Mandarin
Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese
Country of Origin: Hong Kong
Disc Format(s): VCD
Duration: 99 (mins)
Publisher: Intercontinental Video (HK)
Other Information: 2VCDs
Package Weight: 120 (g)
Shipment Unit: 1 What is it?
YesAsia Catalog No.: 1004000190

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導演 : 李翰祥
Director: Li Han-hsiang

　　本片由當代著名文學家徐訏的小說《後門》改編，並獲得第七屆亞洲影展最佳影片獎，李翰祥以細膩沉厚的鏡頭搬上銀幕。李翰祥文藝小品，寫情含蓄，意境雋永，作品如《冬暖》都是經典小品。徐天鶴（王引）與太太（胡蝶）結婚多年，膝下猶虛，對隔壁小女孩阿琳（王愛明）甚有好感。阿琳父母離婚，孤苦伶仃，繼母對她泠淡。徐太太提議收阿琳為繼女，琳父母喜不自勝。後來阿琳親母史小姐（李香君）出現，要接回阿琳；徐太太不忍拆散母女骨肉，毅然將阿琳交回親母。李大導找來一班天皇巨星客串，陣容強大，包括大導演胡金銓及影后樂蒂。天才童星王愛明飾演阿琳一角，賺人熱淚，曾被譽為亞洲最佳童星之一。

　　Winner of Best Picture at the 7th Asian Film Festival, Rear Entrance is a moving tale about a childless woman (Shanghai superstar Butterfly Woo in her triumphant screen comeback) who cares for an emotionally battered girl (future teen idol Wang Ai-ming). The drama made a star of the lovely Li Hsiang-chun (who plays the girl's mother), and demonstrates director Li Han-hsiang's mastery of emotional nuance in a genre quite different from his other 1959 masterpiece, the Chinese ghost story Enchanting Shadow.
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Average Customer Rating for All Editions of this Product: Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9.5 out of 10 (2)

Kevin Kennedy
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December 23, 2008

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What will become of little Ah Ling? Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10
In the hands of a less assured director, "Rear Entrance" might have been nothing more than tawdry melodrama. In the hands of Li Han-Hsiang, "Rear Entrance" becomes great cinematic art.

Butterfly Woo and Wang Yin play Mr. and Mrs. Tsui, a childless middle-aged couple; Mrs. Tsui, who works at a school surrounded by small children, deeply yearns for a child of her own. Across the alley from their home lives little Ah Ling (Wong Ai Ming), who lives all but abandoned by her skirt-chasing father and unloving stepmother. Mr. and Mrs. Tsui take the sad little girl under their wings and shower her with gifts and love. Eventually, her father and stepmother agree to permit the Tsuis to adopt little Ah Ling. While Mr. and Mrs. Tsui and Ling form a loving family, Ling pines for her birth mother, Mrs. Hui (Li Hsiang Chun). Mrs. Hui is a twice-divorced, but still young and beautiful woman who longs to be reunited with her daughter. When Mrs. Hui shows up at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Tsui, sparks fly, tears are shed, and hearts are broken. What will become of poor Ah Ling? The sensitive performances of Butterfly Woo and Li Hsiang Chun ensure that these big emotions are played out with surprising subtlety.

The film's original soundtrack was not preserved, so in this reissue of the film we get a film score played on an electric keyboard, we get all new dubbing of the actor's voices, and we get all new sound effects. Amazingly, the new soundtrack works quite well and rarely distracts. The film's black and white cinematography is nothing short of spectacular. Watch for cameo appearances by director King Hu (as an ant exterminator!) and Betty Loh Ti (as a neighbor) and a striking performance in a small role by Margaret Tu Chuan.

I really can't say enough good things about this powerfully moving family drama. It is a perfect marriage of a great director, a thoughtful script, and a talented cast. Buy it!
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May 9, 2005

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Commendable restoration of a great classic Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10
"Rear Entrance" is a heart warming, touching story of
a childless middle aged couple's search for the child
that they couldn't have and its bittersweet consequences that ensued. Hu Die, brilliant star/actress of Chinese cinema from the 1920s made a
great comeback in the early 60s by her well-modulated
performance in this film. Shaw's star director Li Han Shiang, taking a departure from his usual costumned epics, directs with his assured hands and guided the production to a well deserved BEST PICTURE award at the Asian Film Fest that year. Classic film fans will
most probably rejoice in the superior visual quality of this black and white movie, marred only by negligible out-of-sync dialoque bits, it is amazing to
know that the soundtrack was completely recreated for this restoration. Hopefully Celestial will dwelve deeper into the Shaw vaults for more great b&w films
to re-introduce to a new genaration of filmgoers in their future DVD releases.
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