Reviewed by: dleedlee Date: 11/26/2003 The first thirty minutes are the most lurid fun thanks to the appearance of Lau Hark Suen. After that, Lam Ka Sing (the poor man's Cheung Ying?) appears and the story bogs down until the climactic ending. Though, even I could see the end coming, there is one final twist before the film reaches its inevitable conclusion. The film starts with actual footage of China being bombed by the Japanese during the Sino-Japanese war as the credits roll. When the story begins, Fong, who is single and pregnant, is forced to live an evil cousin (the bug-eyed Mr Evil, Lau Hark Suen). First he attempts to rape her,then forces her to be a dance hostess to support him after the baby is born. Fong eventually flees to Hong Kong with her female cousin Ching after giving up her baby to a neighbor to be raised in southeast Asia. Twenty years later, her son, Ming, returns from southeast Asia but Fong pretends to be his aunt ashamed that she is now a 'daap gwat nui', or masseuse. I enjoyed it well enough but the middle section of the film creeps along until the final hysterical conclusion. Listen for music cues such as The First Noel and Aaron Copeland's Hoedown(?) from Rodeo. Reviewer Score: 5