Sampan | |
Director: | Terry Bourke |
Producer: | Gordon Mailloux |
Country: | Hong Kong |
Language: | English |
Budget: | $50,000[1] or Australian $54,000 |
Gross: | $150,000 |
Sampan, also known as San-Ban, is a 1968 Hong Kong film which was the first feature directed, written and co-produced by Terry Bourke. The film was successful at the box office.
Bourke caled it eighty percent an artistic success.
In Hong Kong, the owner of a sampan has two sons, one good and one bad. One son falls in love with his stepmother.
The script was written by Bourke, who was working as a journalist in Hong Kong, He met Gordon Mailloux who agreed to produce.[1]
According to Mailoux, the film was the most successful movie made in Hong Kong that year.[1] Bourke claimed the movie contained the first naked scene in Chinese cinema. It was banned in Taiwan.[2]