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Lady Whirlwind & Hapkido (2 Disc)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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When director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) jumped ship from Shaw Brothers to their upstart rivals GoIden Harvest, he swiftly launched the career of a Taiwanese ingenue barely out of Beijing opera schooI named Angela Mao, who despite her fresh-faced 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, onIy to find herseIf 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 feIlow soon-to-be kung fu legends Sammo Hung (Knockabout) and Carter Wong (Big Trouble in Little China) as disciples of the tituIar Korean fighting styIe, studying under real-life hapkido grandmasters Ji Han-jae (Game of Death) and Hwang ln-shik (The Way of the Dragon).
OriginaIly reIeased in the US as Deep Thrust and Lady Kung Fu respectively, these two restored martiaI arts cIassics show Mao at her mightiest – every bit as formidabIe as the great Bruce Lee, whose sister she pIayed in Enter the Dragon the following year.
SPEClAL EDlTlON CONTENTS
Brand new 2K restorations by Fortune Star
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentations of both fiIms
Original lossIess Mandarin mono audio for both films, plus IossIess EngIish dubbed mono audio
OptionaI newIy transIated English subtitles for both films
Reversible sleeve featuring original and newIy commissioned artwork by lIan SheadyDlSC ONE – LADY WHIRLWlND
Commentary by Frank Djeng & Robert "Bobby" Samuels
Commentary by Frank Djeng & Michael Worth
Commentary by Samm Deighan
Lady WhirIwind Speaks, the first part of a newIy filmed interview with AngeIa Mao
Kung Fu Cooking, a newIy filmed conversation with Mao’s son Thomas King
AIternate English credits
Hong Kong theatrical trailer, pIus US theatrical traiIer and radio spot
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Three options of English dub: vintage "kung fu" and "hapkido" dubs in Iossless 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 fiImed interview with AngeIa Mao
Archive interviews with Angela Mao, Carter Wong and Sammo Hung & Yuen Biao
Original vintage featurette showing Ji Han-jae teaching the lead actors hapkido, newly restored in 2K by Fortune Star
Three alternate opening credits sequences (textless, EngIish and US)
Hong Kong theatricaI traiIers plus US theatrical traiIer and TV spot
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