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Closing Film: Challenge of the Lady Ninja / Tso-Nam Lee

  • Country and year: Taiwan 1983
  • Rating: 16
  • Duration: 92 min
  • Director: Tso-Nam Lee
  • Writer: Hsin Wei, from a story by Chang Hsin-Yi
  • Producer(s): Chang-Liang King
  • Cinematographer: Yan-Chien Chuang
  • Music: Mou-Shan Huang
  • Cast: Elsa Yeung, Kuan-Tai Chen, Hsiang Yun-Peng, Chen Kai-Chun, Chiang Yi-Chun, Jung-Chi Sun, Pu Ying-Lan
  • Language: Mandarin Chinese
  • Subtitles: English
  • Format: DCP

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“Succeeds at never being boring, and the guarantee of some action, be it covered in baby oil or delivered via the thrust of a blade, is never far away”
– Paul Bramhall / City on Fire

“Action packed, with a fight or a chase breaking out every five or so minutes, and each one as energetic as the one that came before”
– Steve Miller / Watching the Detectives

“This is set in the time of World War 2, yet everything including the cars and the clothes looks like 1983”
– Sam Panico / B and S About Movies

“Xiao-Hui trains in ninjutsu in Japan, and becomes the first Chinese lady-ninja. She returns to Japanese occupied Shanghai, to discover that her fiancé, Li Tong, has allied with Japan, betraying her and her country. She decides to train a group of female killers to murder Tong.
Abundant plot twists and exuberant ninja tricks, binge fighting, and eroticism abound as the female fighters use perversion to achieve their ends. Challenge of the Lady Ninja is an expression of pure cinematic excess stemming from a turbulent 1980s Taiwan under martial law.”
– Asian Film Archive Singapore

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