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'The West has a tradition of turning Asian stories into Westerns, but here the tables have been turned in a very original way by Thai writer/director Wisit Sasanatieng. A melodrama about rich girl Rumpoey and poor boy Dum, who becomes the outlaw Black Tiger when his love for Rumpoey seems hopeless and he discovers his father has been murdered. Explicitly bloody like Peckinpah, moody like Leone, cheeky like Raimi, Tears of the Black Tiger has taken on Western references but still delivers a film that is distinctively different.' SBS

MA15+