Original
Chinese Title: TIAO ZHAN [Challenge]
also known as VENGEANCE IS MINE
director: Chun Huang
starring: Yukari Oshima · Collin Chou · Chao Tze-Yun · Ming Che · Chen
Yu-Chen · Feng Ku
Yukari
Oshima plays Bing-Bing, an assistant to a powerful businessman, who
becomes concerned when she see a young fighter named Tiger Tong get
suckered into joining a Mafia clan. She attempts to protect him, but
soon Tiger is performing hits for the Kay Chen Triad that dramatically
affect Bing-Bing's own company. She retaliates by killing the enemies
of his clan under the alias Rose Killer. Being on opposite sides kindle
an emotional tie between them that results in an unusual, and ultimately
uncomfortable romance.
This
is one of the later films for Miss Oshima, made only two years before
her retirement as a headliner in 1999 with IT
TAKES A THIEF. This rare Taiwanese project remains one of her
strangest motion pictures. Collin Chou also co-starred with Yukari in
DRUGS
FIGHTERS. He would later become a major player in martial arts
films, includingBADGE
OF FURY, PAINTED
SKIN: MURAL, FLASHPOINTas well as the Matrix movies.
A Taiwanese
Chinese production with Chinese and English subtitles; widescreen format,
DVD encoded for ALL REGION NTSC, playable on any American machine.
Extras include selected trailers.
Sexual
Situations/SemiNudity/Drugs/Violence/Sexual Brutality
for Mature Audiences
