Tiger Love
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About Tiger Love
Shi Shinlian elopes with Lin Xiaohou rather than marry the cousin her father has chosen. His men beat Xiaohou and leave him for dead. Pregnant, Shinlian throws herself off a cliff, lands in a tree above a tiger, and in fright urinates on the animal, which then obeys her. She raises their son Xiaochang in the valley for twenty years, and he learns a tiger-like style of fighting. Back among the feuding Shi and Ling families he falls in love with his cousin Xiaoling. The feud kills both his parents. The tiger, turned into a demon woman, is killed by Xiaochang and Xiaoling with boiling oil.
Cast & crew
More about Tiger Love
Lin I-hsiu directed this Hong Kong martial-arts film for Kan Yeung. Some credits also list Kuang Hui. Hsiao Shyue-chen narrates. Wong Chui-kuai and Chiang Kuo-chuan edited. The picture runs under several export titles, including Legend of the Tiger and Le Jeune tigre du kung fu.
Themes
Making
Li Shih-chieh was the cinematographer. The story jumps twenty years between the cliff and the son's return.
Reviews
A 1980 notice in So Good Hong Kong DVD Reviews called the opening disturbing, the fights dull, and the last twenty minutes closer to a horror picture.
Look
Li Shih-chieh photographed the film.
Music
Chen Yung-Yu is credited with the music.
Preservation
Prints have circulated on home video, including Mill Creek compilations.
Notes
- Hu Chin plays Shi Shinlian.
- Lo Lieh is in the cast. Published cast lists do not fix his role.
- Xiaochang lives with the tiger for twenty years before he returns to the village.
- The tiger's first kill in those twenty years is a night watchman, after Shinlian dies.
- Under the moon the tiger becomes a demon old woman and hunts the Shi family.
- Mill Creek Entertainment later put the film on martial-arts compilation discs.
- Export titles also include Tiger's Love, Ren Hu Lian, and the German Todesschrei der Tigerkralle.
Scenes
- Shinlian falls into a tree with the tiger waiting below.
- The grown son walks back into the village in strange clothes and is attacked.
- Xiaochang and Xiaoling pour boiling oil on the tiger in its demon form.
Also available
- Mill Creek Entertainment martial-arts compilations