Red Nights

Red Nights
Directed by	Julien Carbon Laurent Courtiaud
Written by	Julien 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 giallo slasher film directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud. A Hong Kong-French-Belgian co-production, 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]}

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.

Cast

• Frédérique Bel as Catherine Trinquier
• Carrie Ng as Carrie Chan
• Carole Brana as Sandrine Lado
• Stefan Wong as Patrick
• Kotone Amamiya as Tulip
• Maria Chen as Flora
• Jack Kao as Mister Ko

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.

External links

• Red Nights at IMDb
• Colin Geddes (2010). "Red Nights [programme note]". Toronto International Film Festival. Archived from the original on 23 August 2010.