Fortress of Flesh and Blood
Fortress of Flesh and Blood

Fortress of Flesh and Blood

June 15, 1938 | 98 min

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.

Genres

Drama War

Cast

Naomi Scott

Nancy Wan-Seung Chan

Naomi Scott

Junchao Jiang

Naomi Scott

Wong Sau-nin

Naomi Scott

黃楚山

Naomi Scott

Lau Hak-Suen

Naomi Scott

Tan Lo

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