Fortress of Flesh and Blood
1938, Cantonese. Directed by Hou Yao.
Professor Lo Yeung-guo (Hou Yao) and his students escape death from the Japanese army, and call on villagers in the countryside to form a guerrillas group. His son Lo Yung (Lau Hark-suen), however, indulges in debauchery. Entrapped by the Japanese, chicken-hearted Yung leaks information about the guerrilla that leads to deaths and injuries in the group. Yeung-guo reprimands his son for being an invisible traitor, inflicting even more harm than an outright traitor. Placing righteousness before family, he decides to execute his own son. As a writer-director-actor in the film, Hou Yao proclaimed his unwavering stance on resistance on the screen, and delivered a scathing attack on the cowardly ‘invisible traitors‘ at that time. Not long after, Hou was sadly arrested and executed by the Japanese army in Singapore.
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Cantonese
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- Released
- 15 June 1938
- Original title
- 血肉長城
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Written by
- Hou Yao
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Fortress of Flesh and Blood runs 98 minutes (1h 38m).
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Fortress of Flesh and Blood isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 15 June 1938. (Checked 14 November 2026.)
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Who directed Fortress of Flesh and Blood?
Fortress of Flesh and Blood (1938) was directed by Hou Yao and stars Hou Yao, Nancy Wan-Seung Chan, Junchao Jiang.