original Taiwanese/Chinese
title NU XING DE FU CHOU also
known as WOMAN REVENGER
director: Tsai Yang-Ming
starring: Yang Hui-Shan · Liu Te-Kai · Sha Ma · Emily Chang · Lu Pei-Hung
· Mu Szu-Cheung · Chieh Hou
Lingling's
childhood friend Mei-hua currently lives in Japan with her sister, Mei-feng.
Upon learning of Mei-Hua's mysterious death, the young woman goes to Tokyo
to give assistance to struggling Mei-feng. However, after arriving at
Tokyo International Airport, Lingling is kidnapped by Yakuza gangsters
who take her to a remote hideaway in the Fuji Mountains. They have also
taken Mei-feng hostage and are torturing the girl along with other forced-into-sex
victims. The gangsters demand information about a missing drug shipment
from Lingling, or she witness the death of Mei-feng. Lingling loses an
eye in a deadly knife attack [see pic, above right] but returns
to get revenge.
This
sleazy Taiwanese thriller is purposely constructed like a Japanese Pink
Film, mixed with THEY
CALL HER ONE-EYE and various HK revenge thrillers (ie.,UNDERGROUND
WIFE, WOMAN
AVENGER: RAPE VENGEANCE, LADY
PUNISHER, et al). Here is a solid, sleek actioner from
director Tsai Yan-Ming [perhaps best known by his pseudonym Ulysses Au-Yeung],
winner of Star Asia Lifetime Achievement Award at the New York Asian Film
Festival in 2013. Genre fan will also salute him for helming COUNTRY
OF BEAUTIES.
Lead
actress Yang Hui-Shan is better known in the West as Elsa Yeung, starring
in numerous cult hits from GOLDEN
QUEEN COMMANDOS to DEADLY
SILVER ANGELS. She retired in 1986, after making 70+ movies.
A Taiwanese
film with optional English subtitles; uncut 81 minutes,
on a DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC WORLD FORMAT.
Extras include selected trailers.
Nudity/Graphic
Violence/Torture/Drugs/Sexual Brutality/Prostitution
Intended For Mature Audiences
