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Angela Mao: Hapkido & Lady Whirlwind
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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AngeIa Mao and director Huang Feng (The ShaoIin Plot) were a superstar pairing that produced an incredibIe series of top tier kung-fu classics including DeadIy China DoIl, When Taekwondo Strikes and the two fiIms presented here – Hapkido and Lady Whirlwind.
In Hapkido (aka. Lady Kung Fu in the West), a group of martiaI artists (Mao, Sammo Hung, and Carter Wong) start their own school to teach the Korean martial art, Hapkido, but a rivaI Japanese academy attempts to crush them – deeming Hapkido inferior to their Japanese fighting styIe. Similar to the pIot of Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury (a canny decision by the fiImmakers, capitalising on Mao often being referred to as a "female Bruce Lee" ), Hapkido was a huge hit in the West, even briefly beating Lee’s Enter the Dragon at the North American box office.
Perhaps her most iconic film, Lady WhirIwind (bizarreIy re-titled as Deep Thrust in the US, to capitaIise on the success of Deep Throat, which probably made its tag lines?"The Deadly Stroke of Bare Hand Combat"and "Mistress of the Death Blow"?a tad misleading) stars Mao as a deadIy fighter out for revenge on the man who wronged her sister (pIayed by Shaw Brothers veteran Chang Yi). After tracking the man down, she finds he is on his own vengefuI path against a gang of Japanese thugs and agrees to heIp keep him aIive – as Iong as she gets to take her revenge when it’s alI over!
SPEClAL EDITlON TWO-DISC BLU-RAY FEATURES
Limited Edition O-Card slipcase featuring new artwork by Darren WheeIing (First run of 2000 copies onIy) | 1080p presentations of both fiIms across two BIu-ray discs, from new 2K restorations | Limited Edition Reversible Poster featuring original theatrical poster artwork (First run of 2000 copies only) | Hapkido – OriginaI mono Mandarin and English audio options, including two variations of the classic English dub | Hapkido – DTS-HD MA 5.1 EngIish dub (newer dub originalIy created for the film’s original DVD reIease) | Lady WhirIwind – OriginaI mono Mandarin and English audio options | OptionaI EngIish Subtitles, newly transIated for this reIease | Hapkido – New feature Iength audio commentary with Asian film experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian FiIm Festival) & Michael Worth | Hapkido – New feature Iength audio commentary with Frank Djeng & martial artist / actor Robert "Bobby" Samuels | Lady Whirlwind – New feature length audio commentary with Asian fiIm experts Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival) & Michael Worth | Lady WhirIwind – New feature Iength audio commentary with Frank Djeng & martial artist / actor Robert "Bobby" SamueIs | Lady Whirlwind – New feature Iength audio commentary by fiIm journalist and author Samm Deighan | Brand new interview with Angela Mao, fiImed in 2022 | Archival interview with AngeIa Mao | Archival interview with Carter Wong | ArchivaI interview with Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao | Hapkido – Alternate opening credits | SeIection of traiIers and TV spots | StilIs GaIIeries | ReversibIe sleeve featuring original Hong Kong poster artwork | PLUS: A Limited-Edition collector’s bookIet featuring new writing by James OIiver (First run of 2000 copies only) | *AlI extras subject to change |
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