Angela yu

DEAD END (1969) offers a rather unusual attempt by director Chang Cheh and his two stars, Ti Lung and David Chiang, to craft a contemporary drama that has nothing in common with the martial arts spectacles this trio made for the Shaw Bros. studio throughout the 1970s (THE HEROIC ONES, DUEL OF THE IRON FIST, THE NEW ONE-ARMED SWORDSMAN, BLOOD BROTHERS, SHAOLIN TEMPLE, FIVE SHAOLIN MASTERS, etc.). Here Ti Lung plays Zhang Chun, a disaffected young ladies' man in Hong Kong (ca. 1968) who has difficulty holding down a job or showing any responsibility whatsoever, yet he thinks he's worthy of a rich girl, Wen Rou (Li Ching), whom he first meets when he comes to her aid after her Mercedes Benz has broken down on a highway. They embark on an unlikely romance, arousing the ire of her protective brother (Chen Hung Lieh), who proceeds to make life rough for Zhang, whose acquisition of a gun leads a to a predictable tragic turn of events.