She Shoots Straight

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Timo Tjahjanto

The Shadow Strays (Timo Tjahjanto, 2024)

Originally published in a slightly different form over at InReview Online in September 2024. We truly are in a golden age of action cinema. From every corner of the globe, with budgets high, low, and in-between, remarkably fit men and women are beating the hell out of each other

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Contemporary Chinese (Streaming) Cinema

The MIYA Memo: Shell Girl (Wang Xia, 2024) and Female Special Police Officer (Zhang Zhen, 2022)

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Contemporary Chinese (Streaming) Cinema

The Raquel Report: iQIYI's Queen of Triads, Snipers, and Wild Agents

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Qin Pengfei

The Bodyguard and Blade of Fury (Qin Pengfei, 2024)

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Yuen Woo-ping

In the Line of Duty IV (Yuen Woo-ping, 1989)

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In the Line of Duty

In the Line of Duty III (Brandy Yuen & Arthur Wong, 1988)

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Stephen Shin

Black Cat II: The Assassination of President Yeltsin (Stephen Shin, 1992)

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Yiu Tin-hung

Secret Police (Yiu Tin-hung, 1992)

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Stephen Shin

Black Cat (Stephen Shin, 1991)

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Queen's High (Chris Lee Kin-sang, 1991)

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In the Line of Duty VII (Cheng Siu-keung, 1991)

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In the Line of Duty VI: Forbidden Arsenal (Cheng Siu-keung and Yuen Jun-man, 1991)

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In the Line of Duty V: Middle Man (Cha Chuen-yee, 1990)

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Cindy Chow

Lethal Panther 2 (Cindy Chow, 1993)

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Godfrey Ho

Lethal Panther (Godfrey Ho, 1991)

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Corey Yuen

So Close (Corey Yuen, 2002)

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Moon Lee

A Serious Shock! Yes Madam! (Albert Lai, 1993)

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Max Lee Chiu-chun

Who Cares (Max Lee Chiu-chun, 1989)

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Stanley Siu Wing

The Avenging Quartet (Stanley Siu Wing, 1993)

Tony Lu Chun-ku

Angel Terminators 2 (Tony Lou Chun-ku & Chan Lau, 1993)

The only relation I can see between this and the first Angel Terminators film is that they both exist in a universe that follows all our normal laws of physics except for the fact that objects have a tendency to catch fire and explode whenever they impact other objects despite

Wellson Chin

The Inspector Wears Skirts Series (Wellson Chin, 1988–1992)

The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) A Girls with Guns riff on the Police Academy series, with Sibelle Hu and Cynthia Rothrock training a group of Female Commandos led by Kara Hui and Sandra Ng. The training sequences are rote, with important lessons learned about teamwork and community. Most of the

Stanley Tong

Project S (Stanley Tong, 1993)

This sequel to Police Story 3: Supercop, also known as, appropriately enough, Supercop 2, focuses on Michelle Yeoh’s character from that film, with the same director (Stanley Tong) and Jackie Chan reprising his role in a single scene (in which he foils Eric Tsang’s jewel robbery attempt while

The Odd One Dies

The In the Line of Duty/Yes, Madam Series

Yes, Madam! (Corey Yuen, 1985) — July 2, 2015 Royal Warriors (David Chung, 1986) — December 19, 2013 Magnificent Warriors (David Chung, 1987) — December 20, 2013 A self-consciously Hollywood-esque period adventure with Michelle Yeoh as an Indiana Jones-inspired hero who helps a small town (set ostensibly somewhere like Bhutan)

Corey Yuen

Yes, Madam! (Corey Yuen, 1985)

Of the members of the Seven Little Fortunes Peking Opera troupe to become major figures in the Hong Kong film industry in the last 20 years before the colony’s handover to China, Corey Yuen is the least well known. Unlike Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao, he stayed

Corey Yuen

She Shoots Straight (Corey Yuen, 1990)

Neither “She Shoots Straight” nor the its alternate title (“Lethal Lady”) capture the film very well. It’s a film about family, specifically the kind of family where everyone is a cop. This family just happens to have a lot of daughters and only one son. Joyce Godenzi stars as