Lady Whirlwind
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1h 28m
1972 • Hong Kong • Directed by Huang Feng
When director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) jumped ship from Shaw Brothers to their upstart rivals Golden Harvest, he swiftly launched the career of a Taiwanese ingenue barely out of Beijing opera school named Angela Mao, who despite her fresh-faced femininity became one of Hong Kong’s toughest action icons of the 1970s.
Originally released in the US as Deep Thrust, Lady Whirlwind sees Angela Mao dead set on avenging her sister's death, only to find herself fighting alongside the man she wants revenge on!
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