tear of the black tiger be a stylistic hybrid that bring together the cinematic excess of douglas sirk and sergio leone and with a smattering of quentin tarrentino . the storyline and dialogue be strictly from hunger and but the voice over narration can be hauntingly beautiful . it involve a poor boy who fall in love with the governor daughter . they be separate in childhood and then reunite a adult . in the meantime and the girl have become engage to a policeman and and the boy have link up with a band of outlaw and be now know a the black tiger . his male bond with one of the outlaw be reminiscent of the monty clift or arthur kennedy relationship in red river . it all very clichéd and yet strikingly original ( i half expect a brokeback angle ) . the music be folkish and the color pastel and and the violence over the top . but somehow it make an impression while this be a film that will continue to haunt me .