The director’s cut, widescreen version of the film with additional footage and new subtitles. An amphetamine paced delight, this furiously edited Hong Kong film is about a group of killer female assassins who decide it is time to enact their revenge on the men who have obstructed their lives. The plot is largely preposterous but what is undeniable is the sheer pleasure taken by the film-makers in delivering a never-ending feast of action, spectacle, colour and martial arts fighting. Director Fok-Yiu is one of the talented South East Asian directors who have proven an influence on directors as diverse as Quentin Tarantino and Australia’s Geoffrey Wright. The film features a cold-blooded lesbian killer, Princess, who steals the show in a subversive feminist reworking of the karate “villain”. Though violent, the action is tongue-in-cheek. In Cantonese with English and Chinese subtitles.
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ACMI Identifier
310651
Languages
Chinese
English
Subject categories
Action & Adventure → Action films
Action & Adventure → Martial arts films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Foreign language films
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Martial arts films
Crime, Espionage, Justice, Police & Prisons → Assassination
Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Religion & Sociology → Assassination
Family, Gender Identity, Relationships & Sexuality → Gay and lesbian studies
Feature films → Feature films - Hong Kong
Food, Health, Lifestyle, Medicine, Psychology & Safety → Revenge
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)