Bayview Entertainment Readies The Blu-ray Debut Of Director Chen Mei-Juin’s The Gangster’s Daughter For Delivery On Nov. 14

Bayview Entertainment has tabbed Nov. 14 as the street date for the Blu-ray debut of director Chen Mei-Juin’s The Gangster’s Daughter.

For years this Taiwanese filmmaker was known for her insightful documentaries — Hollywood Hotel, Woman of the Southern Wind, Shaolin Ulysses: Kung Fu Monks in America, etc. — however, she took a step outside of her comfort zone in 2017 with the dramatic film release of The Gangster’s Daughter.

Using her cinema verite and critical eye filmmaking sensibilities, plus some neo-noir elements, Mei-Juin fashioned a taut arthouse “gangster” thriller, whose central focus is Shaowu (Ally Chiu — The Losers, Qin Ai De Sha Shou), a lonely, isolated teenager who lives with her grandmother, having recently lost her mother.   Shaowu spends her time watching crime movies, gangster tales and the like, which is odd at best, and perhaps a little dark and disturbing.

At her mother’s funeral, she briefly interacts with her father, Keiko (Jack Kao — Cities of Last Things, Liu Lang Shen Gou Ren, etc.), and it seems as just a passing thing.  However, once back at school, Shaowu snaps when her friend is bullied and the result is that she is expelled from school … her grandmother is overwhelmed and is forced to turn to the man she absolutely despises to take over the raising of this “disturbed” teenager.

Off to the big city of Taipei, where her father — a low-level “gangster” — runs a “karaoke club.”   Trying to adjust to her new surrounding, Shaowu soon finds herself right in the middle of the “events” that come crashing in on her father … can she survive the storm that has finally arrived!!

Nov. 14 for the answers with the Blu-ray debut of director Chen Mei-Juin’s The Gangster’s Daughter.   Presented in Mandarin with English subtitles.