Also
Known As: DARK LADY OF KUNG FU
(edited version)
director:
Lin Chang (Ling Chang aka Pearl Cheong)
starring: Lin Chang (Pearl Cheong) ·
Susan Tyrell · Bo Svenson · Julia Duffy · Marcia
Lewis ·
Bill Paxton
This
is a combination Batwoman and Robin Hood tale with some fantasy elements,
starring Lin Chang of WOLF
DEVIL WOMAN fame. The Butterfly Bandit is terrorizing the rich
people of the land. Despite a large reward offered for capture, the
Butterfly Bandit is still at large. Her incarceration is complicated
by the fact that everybody thinks she is a male. Frustrated by the stupidity
of the officials, she shows up to humiliate bounty hunters to mock them
and rob them before making an escape. When not scaling rooftops as Butterfly
she is an eccentric teacher known as Miss Monkey G. and attempts to
keep an unruly gang of street-hustling kids in line.
Lin
Chang's film is a loose remake of Shaw Brother's Black Butterfly,
bearing only a casual resemblance to the original.This is essentially
a Pearl Cheong project and that means elaborate pre-gothic Lolita
costumes, broad reality gaffs, jarring wirework and a distinctive fantasy
style.
A Taiwanese
film, dubbed in English Language; fullscreen format, fully uncut (92 minutes),
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT; extras include selected
trailers.