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A man stands beside a large wooden board and pushes it towards Yu Ying. She chops the board in half then starts attacking the men that surround her with kicks and chops.
Here comes the lethal lady of Kung Fu!
Fast keyboard music plays.
Yu Ying stands in the centre of a dojo as karate suited men hurry towards her. She fends them off with kicks, punches and throws.
A caption reads: Lady Kung Fu
More men swarm towards Yu Ying but she continues to fight them off.
A caption reads: Angela Mao
Lady Kung Fu. She's the crack karate queen who really drives men mad.
Two karate men attempt to chop Kao Chang, who ducks then grabs the men's heads and crashes them together.
Kao Chang then punches and throws an assailant before delivering a lethal chop to the chest.
A man leaps in the air, kicking two men in the face at the same time.
A shirtless man holds a man's arm to restrain him, then holds his neck and punches him repeatedly in the stomach. He then throws a punch to the head which sends the man flying.
Kao Chang defends himself from six different attacks, either ducking, punching or kicking them.
A man with a sword attempts to fight with Yu Ying. They battle with each other.
Just watch her go into action!
The man attacks at speed but Yu Ying fends off his moves and blocks them with her sword.
The sword fight continues at a slightly slower pace, the sound of the swords clashing with one another.
And watch out for the pigtail that whips you up and wipes you out!
Yu Ying throws a punch which is blocked by a male opponent so she turns her head, hitting him in the face with her pigtail.
Yu Ying violently whips her head three times causing her pigtail to whip into the face of her attacker.
Yu Ying throws her opponent to the floor.
He stands up and Yu Ying attempts to kick him in the face. He blocks and parries her kicks before she finally connects and sends him to the ground.
Yu Ying holds a closed umbrella as a man heads towards her.
She uses the umbrella to hook under the man's arm and send him flying to the ground.
Yu Ying has a mean stare as she holds her umbrella with intent.
Her opponent tries to reach for a sword but Yu Ying blocks his path with the umbrella before swiping his ankle with the umbrella handle.
Yu Ying blocks and parries various punches from an attacker before responding with her own series of kicks.
Yu Ying attempts to kick a karate expert but they both keep blocking and missing each other.
A caption reads: Lady Kung Fu. A National General Pictures Release.
Lady Kung Fu
The unbreakable China doll who gives you the licking of your life!
The karate expert throws Yu Ying threw the air. She lands against a column where she immediately bounces back with a backwards somersault then jumps high around the dojo evading attacks.
Arrow Video
When director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) jumped ship from Shaw Brothers to their upstart rivals Golden Harvest, he swiftly launched the career of a Taiwanese ingenue barely out of Beijing opera school named Angela Mao, who despite her freshfaced femininity became one of Hong Kong’s toughest action icons of the 1970s.
Lady Whirlwind, directed by Huang in 1972, sees Mao dead set on avenging the death of her sister, only to find herself fighting a common enemy alongside the man she wants revenge on. Hapkido, made the same year, sees her once more pitted against a gang of Japanese thugs, alongside fellow soontobe kung fu legends Sammo Hung (Knockabout) and Carter Wong (Big Trouble in Little China) as disciples of the titular Korean fighting style, studying under reallife hapkido grandmasters Ji Hanjae (Game of Death) and Hwang Inshik (The Way of the Dragon).
Originally released in the US as Deep Thrust and Lady Kung Fu respectively, these two restored martial arts classics show Mao at her mightiest – every bit as formidable as the great Bruce Lee, whose sister she played in Enter the Dragon the following year.
Special Edition Contents
- Brand new 2K restorations by Fortune Star
- High Definition Bluray (1080p) presentations of both films
- Original lossless Mandarin mono audio for both films, plus lossless English dubbed mono audio
- Optional newly translated English subtitles for both films
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
Disc One:
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Robert “Bobby” Samuels
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
- Commentary by Samm Deighan
- Lady Whirlwind Speaks, the first part of a newly filmed interview with Angela Mao
- Kung Fu Cooking, a newly filmed conversation with Mao’s son Thomas King
- Alternate English credits
- Hong Kong theatrical trailer, plus US theatrical trailer and radio spot
- Image gallery
Disc Two:
- Three options of English dub: vintage “kung fu” and “hapkido” dubs in lossless mono, plus 2006 DVD dub in 5.1 surround
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Robert “Bobby” Samuels
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
- Lady Kung Fu Speaks, the second part of a newly filmed interview with Angela Mao
- Archive interviews with Angela Mao, Carter Wong and Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao
- Original vintage featurette showing Ji Hanjae teaching the lead actors hapkido, newly restored in 2K by Fortune Star
- Three alternate opening credits sequences (textless, English and US)
- Hong Kong theatrical trailers plus US theatrical trailer and TV spot
- Image gallery
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the films by critic James Oliver
- Arrow Video
- 89 / 97 mins approx
- NR
- Angela Mao
- Yi Chang
- Carter Wong
- Sammo Hung
English / English SDH
- 1972
- Mandarin
- English
- 2
- A
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A man stands beside a large wooden board and pushes it towards Yu Ying. She chops the board in half then starts attacking the men that surround her with kicks and chops.
Here comes the lethal lady of Kung Fu!
Fast keyboard music plays.
Yu Ying stands in the centre of a dojo as karate suited men hurry towards her. She fends them off with kicks, punches and throws.
A caption reads: Lady Kung Fu
More men swarm towards Yu Ying but she continues to fight them off.
A caption reads: Angela Mao
Lady Kung Fu. She's the crack karate queen who really drives men mad.
Two karate men attempt to chop Kao Chang, who ducks then grabs the men's heads and crashes them together.
Kao Chang then punches and throws an assailant before delivering a lethal chop to the chest.
A man leaps in the air, kicking two men in the face at the same time.
A shirtless man holds a man's arm to restrain him, then holds his neck and punches him repeatedly in the stomach. He then throws a punch to the head which sends the man flying.
Kao Chang defends himself from six different attacks, either ducking, punching or kicking them.
A man with a sword attempts to fight with Yu Ying. They battle with each other.
Just watch her go into action!
The man attacks at speed but Yu Ying fends off his moves and blocks them with her sword.
The sword fight continues at a slightly slower pace, the sound of the swords clashing with one another.
And watch out for the pigtail that whips you up and wipes you out!
Yu Ying throws a punch which is blocked by a male opponent so she turns her head, hitting him in the face with her pigtail.
Yu Ying violently whips her head three times causing her pigtail to whip into the face of her attacker.
Yu Ying throws her opponent to the floor.
He stands up and Yu Ying attempts to kick him in the face. He blocks and parries her kicks before she finally connects and sends him to the ground.
Yu Ying holds a closed umbrella as a man heads towards her.
She uses the umbrella to hook under the man's arm and send him flying to the ground.
Yu Ying has a mean stare as she holds her umbrella with intent.
Her opponent tries to reach for a sword but Yu Ying blocks his path with the umbrella before swiping his ankle with the umbrella handle.
Yu Ying blocks and parries various punches from an attacker before responding with her own series of kicks.
Yu Ying attempts to kick a karate expert but they both keep blocking and missing each other.
A caption reads: Lady Kung Fu. A National General Pictures Release.
Lady Kung Fu
The unbreakable China doll who gives you the licking of your life!
The karate expert throws Yu Ying threw the air. She lands against a column where she immediately bounces back with a backwards somersault then jumps high around the dojo evading attacks.
Arrow Video
When director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) jumped ship from Shaw Brothers to their upstart rivals Golden Harvest, he swiftly launched the career of a Taiwanese ingenue barely out of Beijing opera school named Angela Mao, who despite her freshfaced femininity became one of Hong Kong’s toughest action icons of the 1970s.
Lady Whirlwind, directed by Huang in 1972, sees Mao dead set on avenging the death of her sister, only to find herself fighting a common enemy alongside the man she wants revenge on. Hapkido, made the same year, sees her once more pitted against a gang of Japanese thugs, alongside fellow soontobe kung fu legends Sammo Hung (Knockabout) and Carter Wong (Big Trouble in Little China) as disciples of the titular Korean fighting style, studying under reallife hapkido grandmasters Ji Hanjae (Game of Death) and Hwang Inshik (The Way of the Dragon).
Originally released in the US as Deep Thrust and Lady Kung Fu respectively, these two restored martial arts classics show Mao at her mightiest – every bit as formidable as the great Bruce Lee, whose sister she played in Enter the Dragon the following year.
Special Edition Contents
- Brand new 2K restorations by Fortune Star
- High Definition Bluray (1080p) presentations of both films
- Original lossless Mandarin mono audio for both films, plus lossless English dubbed mono audio
- Optional newly translated English subtitles for both films
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Ilan Sheady
Disc One:
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Robert “Bobby” Samuels
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
- Commentary by Samm Deighan
- Lady Whirlwind Speaks, the first part of a newly filmed interview with Angela Mao
- Kung Fu Cooking, a newly filmed conversation with Mao’s son Thomas King
- Alternate English credits
- Hong Kong theatrical trailer, plus US theatrical trailer and radio spot
- Image gallery
Disc Two:
- Three options of English dub: vintage “kung fu” and “hapkido” dubs in lossless mono, plus 2006 DVD dub in 5.1 surround
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Robert “Bobby” Samuels
- Commentary by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
- Lady Kung Fu Speaks, the second part of a newly filmed interview with Angela Mao
- Archive interviews with Angela Mao, Carter Wong and Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao
- Original vintage featurette showing Ji Hanjae teaching the lead actors hapkido, newly restored in 2K by Fortune Star
- Three alternate opening credits sequences (textless, English and US)
- Hong Kong theatrical trailers plus US theatrical trailer and TV spot
- Image gallery
FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collectors' booklet featuring new writing on the films by critic James Oliver
- Arrow Video
- 89 / 97 mins approx
- NR
- Angela Mao
- Yi Chang
- Carter Wong
- Sammo Hung
English / English SDH
- 1972
- Mandarin
- English
- 2
- A
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I've only watched Hapkido so far
I've seen Hapkido before and I was excited to get a good Blu-Ray cut of this. The version is good, but I have one major complaint - the opening title credits are disruptive to the start of the movie. I can't remember what the titles looked like when I saw them previously, but they were so distracting that I started thinking ... why are they showing cuts from latter in the movie while the titles are still showing. I was so distracted by the titling that I wasn't realizing that the the movie had actually started already. These titles are cool and they looked nice, but I would have been fine with them being shown before the actual movie started - by themselves with background music from the movie playing the background. Just slide them in between the studio logo and when the movie actually starts. I really don't care if it means leaving the original credits on the movie, I don't think that they were any where near as distracting as these new ones were. I was pretty annoyed by them actually. Arrow has done such a great job on the Shaw Brothers movies that I was really shocked and how lame they looked popping up over an action scene. I was very disappointed in this and that is why I gave this a 4 instead of a 5. Great movie, but the credits at the beginning really sucked.
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