THE TIGER FACTORY (2010) trailer

This is a trailer of Woo Ming Jin's THE TIGER FACTORY (2010), premiering at the Directors' Fortnight (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs) section of the Cannes Film Festival 2010.

It is a co-production between Malaysia's Greenlight Pictures and Japan's Kohei Ando Laboratory.

SYNOPSIS:
Ping Ping is 19 and wants to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. She's under the guardian of her aunt, Madame Tien, who shuffles her between two jobs; working in a pig farm, and cleaning dishes in a rundown restaurant. Tien is also involved in a baby factory scheme, pairing young women with migrant workers and then selling the babies for money. Both survive with each other in a love-hate symbiotic manner, until a truth about her aunt is revealed to Ping Ping.

Written and produced by Woo Ming Jin and Edmund Yeo.
Shot by Wan Chun Hung
Edited by Edmund Yeo and Kenny Chua
Starring Lai Fooi Mun ("My Daughter"), Pearlly Chua ("I Don't Want To Sleep Alone"), and Susan Lee Fong Zhi

Category:

Film & Animation

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[ironandsilk]

cinematography makes me want to puke. i mean i literarrly feel seasick

[jientao]

haha i somehow knew it was malaysian when i saw the oil palms.. then my thoughts were confirmed when the proton perdana came out haha 

[obesepie]

Why are indie films always amplifying real life drama and put them to a twisted stand still where the main character just sits there after a supposedly traumatic incident??? A logical person would get a proper job, especially if she's able bodied... But I guess this is another case of KTAR voluntary student prostitute... If that's the case, case closed...

[qaziomo91]

booooooooooooooooooring.

[SuperOmnicron]

@izzy4053 ...Huxley got it WRONG. Brave New World presupposes a controlled autocracy. Huxley was a proponent of eugenics as a method of bettering society. Julian Huxley was also a Eugenicist. Nothing more than the masking of a plutocracy with a controlled and probably intentioally annhilating populace (with many of those intended people those of color within these films). No doubt the quality of the film is good, the subject matter relevant. The aristocracy is the danger, not common man.

[VCat2006]

@izzy4053 Goodbye. I'll assume you'll set the example, right? A better environment begins with yourself.

[eswiftfire]

@ironandsilk I'll take that as a compliment. It's like the Bourne films + Cloverfield.

[eswiftfire]

@crock703 It's Malaysian. Well, I'm glad you enjoyed it.