There are easily enough ideas and plot in this overpacked combination of history, drama, romance, and literary revisionism to fill three films. But the makers of THE REINCARNATION OF GOLDEN LOTUS have settled for making just one film, and it fails to find a dramatic focus until its
final, frenzied minutes. At the center of the movie is Lotus, Chinese literature's infamous "slut of all time." During the 10th-century Sung dynasty, Lotus was the central character of a classic Chinese pornographic novel about a beautiful woman who is abused, raped, sold, and murdered by the men
in her life.
The film's prologue finds Lotus (Joey Wang) beheaded and awaiting admission...
Released:
1990
Rated:
NR
Length:
99 mins