The Window

Lung Kongs first color feature expands on thematic concerns supplanted in The Story of a Discharged Prisoner made one year before situating issues of social reform within an impassioned romantic melodrama The relationship between a career criminal and a blind girl a stunning performance by Josephine Siao form a portrait of marginalized life in a rapidlymodernizing Hong Kong The profound chemistry between Patrick Tse and Josephine Siao onscreen served as the primary inspiration for the famed hit manblind girl pairing in John Woos awardwinning film The Killer 1989