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Sampan | |
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Directed by | Terry Bourke |
Written by | Terry Bourke |
Produced by | Gordon Mailloux |
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Country | Hong Kong |
Language | English |
Budget | $50,000[2] or Australian $54,000[3] |
Box office | $150,000[2] |
Sampan, also known as San-Ban, is a 1968 Hong Kong film which was the first feature directed, written and co-produced by Terry Bourke. The film was successful at the box office.
Bourke caled it eighty percent an artistic success.[3]
In Hong Kong, the owner of a sampan has two sons, one good and one bad. One son falls in love with his stepmother.
The script was written by Bourke, who was working as a journalist in Hong Kong, He met Gordon Mailloux who agreed to produce.[2]
According to Mailoux, the film was the most successful movie made in Hong Kong that year.[2] Bourke claimed the movie contained the first naked scene in Chinese cinema. It was banned in Taiwan.[3]