The Tiger Factory

19 year-old Ping yearns to go to Japan to work in a car parts company. Under the guardianship of her aunt, she works two jobs in a restaurant and a pig farm to earn enough money to live her dream, occasionally stealing from her employers to earn a little extra cash. This goal also leads her to be involved in a business where immigrant workers are paid to impregnante women, who in return get money for giving birth. When Ping realises that her aunt has been hiding the business from her all along, she is forced to make a difficult decision.

Director: Woo Ming Jin
Genre: Drama
Rating: PG
Availability: library@esplanade, Lee Kong Chian Reference Library
Accession No: 2013-D-2119
Subtitles: English
Release Year: 2010
Producer: Woo Ming Jin, Edmund Yeo
Language: Cantonese, Malay, Mandarin
Production Country: Malaysia

Cast List:

Crew:

Executive Producer - Kohei Ando
Assistant Producer - Yuiko Kato
Cinematography - Chun Hung Wan
Editing - Kenny Chua Kuang Eng, Edmund Yeo
Director of Photography - Wan Chung Hung
Gaffer - Wan Chung Hung, Lesly Leon Lee
First assistant camera - Lesly Leon Lee
Second Assistant Camera - Kenny Chua
Production Designer/ Costume - Lim Seow Wei
Production Consultant - Gan Hui Yee
Sound recording - Cheong Sau Pan
Sound Mixing - Kenny Chua
Location Manager - Alex Chow
Story Consultant - Tan Chui Mui
Burmese consultant - Rum Nun Chung
Production Assistant - Choo Toong Hoe, Shalini Ravenheran
Still photography - Edmund Yeo
Colour correction - Wan Chun Hung, Kenny Chua
Financial Planner - Miyako Kobayashi
Lightning Equipment - Greenlight Pictures

Keywords:

Themes - Morality vs. Money, Starting a new life, the value of a life, self-gain
Activities - being pregnant, delivering stillborn, sex, imgregnation, selling babies, stealing from employers, two jobs, washing dishes, washing and feeding pigs, bribery, phone calls at public phone booth
Items - Travel documents, passport, money (ringgit), chinese herbs (for pregnancy and abortion), IDD card, money box
Characters - Ping, Aunt, Mei, Piu, Kang, immigrant workers, policemen, Ah Seng
Relationship - Ping and Aunt (niece and aunt), Ping and Kang, Ping and Mei
Places - Malaysia, Japan, Pig Farm, Restaurant, the docks