Nomination Year: 2010

SYNOPSIS: Apparently, it's some kind of legend in China that if a woman kisses a tiger, the tiger becomes her slave for life. Well, this Chinese woman falls in love with a boy from a rival clan. The two try to elope, but Romeo-and-Juliet-like, they're caught by her father and the boy is beaten to a bloody pulp and killed. She dives off the nearby cliff. End of story, right? Nope. Somehow, she survives the 500-foot drop into some tall trees...only to discover a woman-eating tiger waiting for her below! Well, she, uh..."kisses" it and it becomes her slave... Fast-forward 20 years. Turns out she'd been pregnant with her lover's child. She raises him as a wild-man, who learns Kung Fu from "Uncle Tiger." When the young man gets restless and travels from the forest to the village (which is apparently right next-door), he discovers that his father wasn't killed but lived to remarry. Unfortunately, the evil grandfather discovers his origins and a series of mishaps rekindles the blood-feud between the two families. Eventually, the mother is killed, turning the tiger into a female bloodsucking witch (no, I don't get it either).

Smithee Award Nominations

Most Ludicrous Premise
It Says She's Supposed To KISS the Tiger... She wakes in the tree and, terrified, PISSES on the tiger. Which somehow turns it into her slave. Enough, we're to believe, for the tiger to somehow have gotten her out of the tree and into its cave. And lady, that wasn't a kiss. Kid grows up with the tiger, beats the crap out of it with a stick (and almost gets eaten).	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Inane Dialogue
Family Ties "Who are you?" "His mother." "He's your son?!" "Tell me where he is!" "No, I caahn't." "You refuse?!"	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

"WHAT?!"
Freeze-Frame Tiger Monologue The woman dies, and the tiger kills. Suddenly, the tiger speaks to nobody. Then turns into a demon-witch. And there's a two-minute freeze-frame exposition. "I've killed my 100th person! Tonight I will turn into an old lady!" WTF?!	Sorry, this clip has not yet been made available!

Directors

Director	Claim to Fame
Lin I-hsiu

Cast

Actor	Character	Claim to Fame
Lo Lieh	<Not Yet in Database>	AKA "Lieh Lo," "Lit Law," and "Lo Lien," he had a very long and distinguished career in kung fu movies--almost 250 of them -- spanning from the '60s to the year before his death in 2002. Five Fingers of Death, The 36th Chamber of Shaolin, and Fists of the White Lotus, to name a few.
Yu Wang	<Not Yet in Database>	Former Hong Kong swimming champion.

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