Red Nights

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Red Nights
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Directed by Julien Carbon
Laurent Courtiaud
Written byJulien Carbon
Laurent Courtiaud
Produced by Alexis Dantec
Rita Wu
Starring Frédérique Bel
Carrie Ng
Jack Kao
Cinematography Man-Ching Ng
Edited by Sébastien Prangère
Music by Alex Cortés
Willie Cortés
Production
companies
The French Connection
Red East Pictures
Release date
  • 2010 (2010)
Running time
98 minutes
Countries Hong Kong
France
Belgium
Languages French
Cantonese

Red Nights (Les Nuits rouges du Bourreau de Jade) is a 2010 French-Hong Kong giallo slasher film directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud. It is a thriller and a tale of erotic horror. The filmmakers call it a Hong Kong giallo with mystery, (sadistic) murders, fetishism and women. [1] The film played at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival in the Midnight Madness section. [2] [3]

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Plot

There is a legend of an executioner who created a poison which brought death through absolute pleasure. This legend repeats nowadays when a French woman flees to Hong Kong after killing her lover and stealing from him an old artifact containing this poison. She meets a mobster from Taiwan and an epicurean and sadistic woman killer, who all want to get the precious poison.

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References

  1. "Red Nights". unifrance.org. Retrieved 4 November 2021.
  2. Todd Brown (19 August 2010). "TIFF 2010: Extreme Kink In Midnight Madness Selection RED NIGHTS". Screen Anarchy. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
  3. Sarah Gopaul (19 September 2010). "TIFF '10: Red Nights". Imagery à la carte. Retrieved 8 December 2018.