The Tiger Factory

  • 84'
  • Malaysia
  • 2010
Following on from the impressive Woman on Fire Looks for Water, for his next film Malaysian filmmaker Woo Ming Jin takes on the insufferable circumstances of nineteen-year-old Ping Ping. For Woo, economic factors are often decisive. Whereas in his last film a major role was set aside for love, in The Tiger Factory - filmed in a documentary style - such emotions are completely absent. Under the watchful gaze of her aunt Tien, Ping Ping works herself into the ground with several simultaneous jobs, in order to pay human traffickers to take her to Japan. Another of her ways to make some money is to become pregnant as a surrogate mother. But immediately following the birth, she is told that the baby is dead. Nevertheless, Ping Ping wants to escape her miserable existence at any price. She asks her aunt, who runs an illegal trade in babies, to arrange for her to become pregnant again.
  • 84'
  • Malaysia
  • 2010
Director
Woo Ming Jin
Countries of production
Malaysia, Japan
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
84'
Medium
Betacam Digi PAL
Languages
Mandarin, Cantonese, Bahasa
Producers
Woo Ming Jin, Edmund Yeo, Ando Kohei
Production Companies
Greenlight Pictures, Kohei Ando Laboratory
Sales
Greenlight Pictures
Screenplay
Woo Ming Jin, Edmund Yeo
Cinematography
Wan Chun Hung
Editor
Edmund Yeo, Kenny Chua Kuang Eng
Production Design
Bee Seow Wei
Sound Design
Cheong Pau San
Music
Kenny Chua Kuang Eng
Cast
Lai Fooi Mun
Website
http://www.greenlightpicture.com
Director
Woo Ming Jin
Countries of production
Malaysia, Japan
Year
2010
Festival Edition
IFFR 2011
Length
84'
Medium
Betacam Digi PAL
Languages
Mandarin, Cantonese, Bahasa
Producers
Woo Ming Jin, Edmund Yeo, Ando Kohei
Production Companies
Greenlight Pictures, Kohei Ando Laboratory
Sales
Greenlight Pictures
Screenplay
Woo Ming Jin, Edmund Yeo
Cinematography
Wan Chun Hung
Editor
Edmund Yeo, Kenny Chua Kuang Eng
Production Design
Bee Seow Wei
Sound Design
Cheong Pau San
Music
Kenny Chua Kuang Eng
Cast
Lai Fooi Mun
Website
http://www.greenlightpicture.com