ID: Furious Slaughter

[ewaffle]

Without the crutch of a cast list matched to character names I am still pretty hopeless on 1970s movies so there are plenty to identify.

http://hkmdb.com/db/movies/images.mhtml?id=5292&display_set=eng

[MrBooth]

Added Miu Tin and Got Siu Bo. From the cast list, the country should be changed to Taiwan.

[Michael Kistner]

Did many IDs and corrected wrong Lee Keung (is now Chai Hau-Keung)

[MrBooth]

Do you agree it's clearly a Taiwanese film?

[Michael Kistner]

The movie was made in Taiwan with Taiwanese cast and crew.
But I don't know if the production company First Films is from HK or Taiwan. The company made movies in Taiwan, but they have "Hong Kong" in their logo.

[MrBooth]

The company made movies in Taiwan, but they have "Hong Kong" in their logo.

Heh, can't argue with that

[calros]

At first I thought "Hong Kong" in the logo meant the company was from HK, but later I found that MOST Taiwanese film companies had "Hong Kong" in its logo.

Incredible but true.

[kenichiku]

From what I know about this, most of the Taiwanese output all had to register their charters in HK if they wanted HK (& beyond) to be the port of call for launch distribution as they didn't and still don't have that kind of distribution muscle at home (esp. before state sponsorship) besides, the HK charters allowed for Taiwanese companies to favorably cloak/shelter their arbitrage profits away from Taiwan as their homeland has a more restrictive tariff system for sheltering funds (think Japan's Toyota of America, France's Canal+Group Netherlands, Microsoft UK, etc). When smaller Indies attached themselves to a larger studio like GH or SB, they faced a 'Catch 22' of having a larger 'umbrella' to put the word out for their films and help shelter their profits while at the same time allow the majors to take the lion's share of the cut (& therefore brand the titles easier for you guys to ID) but when it's a short-lived one hit venture, the HK 'company' for some upstart Taiwan producer was usually some tiny 12 square meter office with a desk & a phone in some Kowloon basement on Nathan next to a hawker's stand, rented short term like for 3-6 months during the distribution life of the film.

Whenever I come across such ambiguities while editing, it's the staff, producer & production values that usually tip me off. Whenever I'm in doubt for these types of titles that I'm mopping up over at the IMDB, you'll see that I include both territories i.e. HK/Taiwan as to a title's origin.

[MrBooth]

Ok, I guess you _can_ argue with that

[kenichiku]

Ok, I guess you _can_ argue with that

Sure erh, which part (or all of it)?

[MrBooth]

Ok, I guess you _can_ argue with that

Sure erh, which part (or all of it)?

Umm, re-read from top - you and Calros did convincingly argue with the thing I previously claimed could not be argued with, so I amended my statement