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The Bamboo House of Dolls

Original title: Nu ji zhong ying
  • 19731973
  • RR
  • 1h 50m
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5.4/10
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Nu ji zhong ying (1973)
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A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
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  • Director
    • Chih-Hung Kuei
  • Stars
    • Birte Tove
    • Lieh Lo
    • Hsieh Wang
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  • Director
    • Chih-Hung Kuei
  • Stars
    • Birte Tove
    • Lieh Lo
    • Hsieh Wang
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    • 9User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
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    Birte Tove
    Birte Tove
    • Jenniferas Jennifer
    Lieh Lo
    Lieh Lo
    • Tsui Kuo-Tungas Tsui Kuo-Tung
    Hsieh Wang
    Hsieh Wang
    • Inoueas Inoue
    Terry Liu
    Terry Liu
    • Makoas Mako
    Roska Rozen
    • Maryas Mary
    Niki Wane
    • Elizabethas Elizabeth
    Hsia-ying Lo
    • Huang Hsiaas Huang Hsia
    Shen Chan
    Shen Chan
    • Nakamuraas Nakamura
    Feng-Chen Chen
    • Old Changas Old Chang
    Chi Cheng
    Ko-Ai Chiang
    • Female inmateas Female inmate
    Dana
    Dana
    • Tortured inmateas Tortured inmate
    • (as Shu-Yi Tsen)
    Mei Sheng Fan
    Mei Sheng Fan
    • Tabeias Tabei
    Chen Feng
    Tessa Finch
    Ju-Yu Fu
    Peter Gordon
    Kang Ho
    Kang Ho
    • Japanese officeras Japanese officer
    • Director
      • Chih-Hung Kuei
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    Storyline

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    A nurse in a Japanese women's POW camp during World War II masterminds an escapee.
    • women in prison
    • nurse
    • trap
    • red cross nurse
    • gun in mouth
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    • Taglines
      • The fight for LIFE between the KUNG-FU masters! ONLY ONE LIVES!
    • Genres
      • Action
      • Drama
      • Thriller
      • War
    • Certificate
      • R
    • Parents guide

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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa # 68937 delivered on 1 September 1976.
    • Goofs
      The camouflage saloon car that Gui Guadong (a.k.a. Tsui Kuo-Tung) drives around the compound, has single headlights: just before it goes for its escape leap, it becomes a double headlight model: as going over the compound wall, it returns to single headlights; then once out and escape careening along the road, it becomes the double headlight car again.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Fear, Panic & Censorship (2000)

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    Very strange HK-produced women-in-prison film
    During World War II a group of nurses are captured by the Japanese army and thrown into a brutal internment camp presided over by a cruel Japanese woman (kind of the Nipponese equivalent of Ilsa). There's a subplot involving Chinese spies in the camp and a hidden cache of gold that both the Chinese and the Japanese are after, and there's not one but TWO big "bust-out" scenes.

    This seems to be a Hong Kong take-off (produced by the notorious Shaw brothers)of the WIP genre made popular in the early 70's by people like Roger Corman. But since the American WIP films were usually shot in the Philipines and used Asian actors in supporting roles, and this movie cast Caucasian actresses in the lead roles, it isn't on the surface that much different from its inspiration (aside from the historical setting). However,the "American" characters here are actually Danish softcore porn stars like Birte Tove, and the whole thing apparently had to be dubbed clumsily into English, so this film lacks a lot of the character development of American WIP films. But at the same time it also lacks a lot of the chop-socky action sequences that characterized Hong Kong films of that era.

    The tone of this film is all over the place. At times it is more serious and brutal film complete with torture and rape scenes. It is somewhat stronger than the American WIP films if not nearly as strong the later Eurpean WIP films made by people like Jess Franco or the notorious Italian "Nazi sexploitation" films (or their American equivalent, the "Ilsa" series). Other times, however, it descends into slapstick comedy like a long, bizarre food fight scene. Sex, as always, is the real name of the game, but even this is curiously circumspect. There's plenty of nudity (shower scenes, etc.), but when the cruel female commander apparently rapes her favorite Caucasian stoolie with a strap-on dildo, the action is kept so much off-screen that it's hard to even figure out what's happening. And after Birte Tove's character first discovers that the Chinese camp cook is a spy who is going to help them escape, she decides to have passionate sex with him, even though they just barely met, and they proceed to do so after lighting about a hundred candles--which is strange to say the least considering this is a spontaneous and furtive encounter in an enemy prison camp.

    That's not necessarily to say this is a bad or entirely un-entertaining WIP film, but it is definitely a very strange one.
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    • Release date
      • August 1976 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Languages
      • Mandarin
      • Japanese
      • Danish
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Das Bambuscamp der gequälten Frauen
    • Production company
      • Shaw Brothers
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 50 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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