Deep Thrust

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She's beautiful. She's exotic. She's deadly.
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Hey, oh!
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She's Lady Whirwind, Mistress of the Deathblow, Queen of the Deep Thrust, the Hand of Death.
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See, the deadliest woman in the world
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take on a dozen skilled fighters, Bear Handen.
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See judo, karate, kung fu, all the deadly arts battling for supremacy.
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See the naked finger versus the knife.
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The naked fist versus the club.
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The naked hand versus the sword.
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Deep Thrust, the hand of death.
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We're not talking about actors. We mean a real monster.
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I brought her back. She'll live and I'll get her another buddy.
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I know they're gonna catch me, but don't let anyone see me like that! Please, Doctor, help me!
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Biologically speaking, it's of primary importance that man should want to mate.
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Hey, that's for sure!
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You don't get all your kicks from surfing, do you?
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We want to be free to ride our machines without being hassled by the man.
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And we want to get loaded. You think you're gonna make a slave of the world?
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I'll see you in hell first!
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The American International Podcast.
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Are you ready?
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Well, it's time for another episode of the American International Podcast. I'm Cheryl Lightfoot.
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And I'm Jeff Markin.
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And in this episode, we plunge into the heart of the world of kung fu fighting mobsters
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with Deep Thrust from 1973.
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Deep Thrust was directed by Huang Feng, also written by Huang Feng, produced by Raymond Chow for Golden Harvest,
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and presented by Hallmark Releasing Corporation, and distributed by American International.
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And before we get started on the cast list, many, many apologies to anyone who's named my pronounced wrong.
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I plan on pronouncing every single one wrong. I probably won't even pronounce it the same way twice,
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so I may get it right once in a while.
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Well, our problem stems from number one were stupid Americans.
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Number two, the credits have several different names listed for some of these cast and crew members.
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And also the subtitles on the character names seem to change from scene to scene.
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So we're not 100% sure if anybody knows who's really in this movie and what their characters are.
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And plus the way they use their surnames at the beginning instead of the end like we do,
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we don't even know if we're getting the order of the names right all the time,
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but we're doing our best so pair with us.
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With that being said, Deep Thrust, the hand of death stars Chang Yi as Ling Shi-huau, Angel Mao as MMiss Tien Li-Chun,
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Pa Ying as Tung Ku, Oh Kyung-Ah as Hsuang Hsuang, Liu Ah-Na as Tiao Ta Niang or Madam Tao,
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Chin Yuet-Sang as Wen Tien.
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Also appearing as Sammo Hung as Tiao Hun, Madam Tiao's brother, Kim Nam-il as Tang Sek Ping,
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Yeung Wai as Thug, and the director Wong Fung makes an appearance as the casino dealer.
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Deep Thrust opens with the Golden Harvest logo over a not so golden harvest.
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This one looked a little green on our parent. We watched the arrow Blu Ray, which is actually about four minutes longer than the original AIP cut,
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but it certainly looks a lot better and it's probably the preferred way to watch the film under the title Lady Whirlwind.
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And it was filmed in Diwali scope, whatever that means.
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You're right, it does look a lot better. First time we watched it was the other version and this is just gorgeous in comparison.
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So we see a young woman walking in the forest and she hears fireworks exploding nearby along with a lot of grunting.
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It's not fireworks. That's the sound of martial arts in action.
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It's the very distracting soundtrack.
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There's a gang of toughs and they're beating up a man. This man is Ling Shi-hua.
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This is your classic 12 on one battle, but at least they're gentlemanly enough to take turns attacking.
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Their ringleader is Tung Ku, and he's leaning against the tree, spinning balls in his hand.
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Not to be crude or anything, but I couldn't think of any reason for him to be holding silver balls.
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They look like those Ben Wah balls that kind of a sex toy.
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So my nickname for him is Mr. Ben Wah balls. It's kind of like a fidget spinner for him.
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The 1970s Chinese version. I don't think this takes place in 1970 doesn't.
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But that's when it was filmed. Yeah, but I think it takes place before that.
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It's sort of a Western. If you can imagine the old West, but in China, that's what our set looks like.
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Anyway, Ling Shi-hua is not doing well in this fight against the 12 others.
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So he makes a break for it and the others chase him.
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But Ling Shi-hua stops at a riverbed and spins around with no little choice but to face his tormentors.
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Tung Ku, the guy with the Ben Wah balls, tells Ling Xiaow to just accept your fate.
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Ling Shi-hua calls him a dirty Japanese and razzles him for not facing him alone.
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Tung Ku says he doesn't need to do that. That's what all the men are for.
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And the crux of your disagreement is this. Tung Ku wants Ling Shi-hua to return to their smuggling enterprise
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and Ling Shi-hua would rather not equip for a reason and would rather die than come back.
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Ling Shi-hua says he's just through with that kind of work.
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So Tung Ku orders his men to kill him. So they begin fighting again.
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Ling Shi-hua is kicked to the ground and he grabs a knife from a sheath warm weapon.
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Because he's a knife from a sheath warm by one of his salons,
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eliciting a pow on the soundtrack.
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Then Tung Ku orders his men to step aside as he enters the fray.
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Ben Wah easily wins this battle because he's cheating in his men are helping.
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And they leave Ling Shi-hua motionless on the ground. Tung Ku leaves with his troops
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his balls clacking all the way.
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Then the woman from the woods walks up to the following Ling Shi-hua and stands before him
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and we cut to the credits.
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This music sounds like it would be at home in a John Ford Western.
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It doesn't sound like a karate movie at all.
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And now as I said we're in an old west town set where an unenthusiastic
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Barker drones on about the features of the local casino obviously hoping to drive away business.
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Then our heroine, Miss Tien arrives in town via a litter carried by two men.
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It's like a rickshaw but with no wheels.
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People have to do all the work carrying it around.
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The Barker welcomes her to the casino and she goes in and takes a place at the table.
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She's playing a game. It's like we'll let but with dice instead of a wheel.
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But your bets are placed the same way and then the dealer rolls the dice.
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And he's got this pop-a-matic type device where he shakes up the dice and sets it on the table.
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The woman places a bet and she starts to win big every time.
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That might be because every time the dealer sets his pop-a-matic down on the table
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she wax it with her hand and says something to the effect of hurry up.
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As she's scooping her winnings toward her, the men starting the table
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all start to drool hungrily at the stack of coins.
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Then the casino's manager comes up behind her. This is Tiao Hungg.
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He's got this like emo kid haircut.
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And we recognize him as one of the men who was fighting with Ling Shi-hua and the earlier scene.
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He slaps his hands on her pile of coin before she can put it in her bag.
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She grabs his arm and flips him over and resumes picking up her winnings.
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He tells her that she touched that pop-a-matic thing trying to cheat so they're going to have to ask her to leave.
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Without her money, Ms. Tien says she came here to gamble not to fight.
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But if they insist. But she says that all she wants is for them to hand over Ling Shi-hua.
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Then she will leave and they can split her winnings between them.
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At the sound of Ling Shi-hua's name, Tiao Hung gasps.
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He says handing over Ling Shi-hua is impossible and tells her to get out.
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To Miss Tien, this means that they want to do things the hard way.
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So now she has to fight them in consecutive one-on-one combat.
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And the Foley crew gets as much of a workout as the stunt people do for this scene.
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And for every scene.
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The sounds of wood banging together in paper bags being packed echo throughout the casino.
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Even when knives were involved.
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And they're still no match for Ms. Tien.
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She eventually ends up fighting Tiao Hung one-on-one for a little bit.
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And then a bunch of the others join the fray.
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She's able to remain upright though, never getting overpowered by any of the men battling her.
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When she's defeated a few of them, she's able to stare down the rest until they all run outside.
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The dealer lingers behind and he tries to grab the bag with Ms. Tien's winnings.
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She sees this and a stare is enough to display the man from his act of theft.
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Then Ms. Tien goes outside and finds that the men from the casino have regrouped and are ready for another round.
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Oh boy.
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So this time they're humiliated in front of the entire town as Ms. Tien beats each of them up in succession.
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She gives Tiao Hung a right thrashing and then tells him to tell his boss, Madam Tiao, that she wants Ling Shi-hua and she wants him now.
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The girl we saw in the cold open sees all this. She expresses surprise at hearing Ling Shi-hua's name and she runs off somewhere.
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Next we see that Tiao Hung from the casino has gone to his boss, Madam Tiao.
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To tell her what he's been told to tell her, she slaps him to the floor, saying he's a weak fool.
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Tung Ku is there too.
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Say, is she really that tough? He asks.
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Tiao Hung says that he should have seen her. She fights like a man.
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Tung Ku asks who she is and Tiao Hung says he doesn't know.
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He only knows that she was asking for Ling Shi-hua.
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This shocks Tung Ku and Madam Tiao.
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Perhaps she doesn't know that Ling Shi-hua is dead, she says.
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Tung Ku clacks his balls and says his minion tanks the pang into Tao to find this mystery woman.
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He tells him to look at the inn, but to bring her back alive, tanks the pang takes a group of thugs and rushes off.
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Madam Tiao goes to Tiao Hung who is leading on the floor.
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He admits to her that this is all his fault and he's failed her.
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She kicks him down and orders one of her men to get rid of him.
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But Tung Ku intercedes on his behalf.
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He says that Tiao Hung was outclassed and didn't stand a chance.
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Madam Tiao agrees to spare the chubby man's life this time.
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But let's be known that she's doing this for Tiao Ku, and not for this man, even though he's her brother.
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But she still believes that Tiao Hung should be punished so she fires him, telling him he's no longer going to be managing the casino.
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And Tung Ku advises him to go find a doctor.
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After he's gone, Madam Tiao asks the man Tung Ku sent out.
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Tang Sek Ping will be able to handle the girl.
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Tung Ku says maybe, but he's not any better a fighter than her brother is.
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So Madam Tiao asks Tung Ku why he doesn't just go after her himself.
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He explains that as a foreigner to this country, being that he's Japanese, he prefers not to draw attention to himself.
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She thinks he prioritizes himself over their casino.
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He says she shouldn't worry about it.
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And that we'll see when Tang Sek Ping gets back.
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And then they make out as they're a thing.
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And now we're with Tang Sek Ping and his minions as they enter the inn, where the young woman is eating soup.
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And another character is having a drink.
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And we'll find out who he is in a sec.
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So Tang Sek Ping walks up to the woman, seeing that she's the only woman in the place.
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And as if she's looking for Ling Shi-hua.
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So what if I am?
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What are you going to do about it?
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She snarkly replies.
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He laughs and tells her that she won't find him. He's busy.
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She stands and says he's not that busy. He's been dead for over three years.
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If you know that, then why are you looking for him?
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Ask Tang Sek Ping.
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Who said that I was?
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Ask the woman.
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And she starts walking away, but the men surround her.
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Over hearing all this from the upstairs, which as a balcony, is Miss Tien.
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When she hears that Ling Shi-hua is dead, she gasps.
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This was not what she was expecting.
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Tang Sek Ping tells the woman that he's sorry he made a mistake.
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But she's going to be coming back with them anyway.
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Just in case.
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She protests that there are laws in this town.
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But they don't care.
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They grab for her and she tries to fight them off, but she's really not a good fighter.
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She's no Miss Tien.
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So the strange man having a drink steps in.
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He can front some men stepping out of his sandals and whips off his kimono to reveal a white gee with a red belt.
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And then he starts to fight on her behalf.
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A fight goes on for a short while, then Tang Kuh arrives, stacking his balls.
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The fighting stops and Tung Ku explains that this man is Wen Tien,
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A former classmate of his, and he's on their side.
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Tang Sek Ping apologizes.
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Then he looks around and notices that in the confusion, the girl has gone.
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Good for her.
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And the next time we see her, she's prancing through the forest, Miss Tien on her trail.
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And now we're back with Madam Tiao.
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She and Tung Ku are whining and dining that man from the inn, Wen Tien, or however you pronounce it.
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Their dinner looks like a baby seal sitting on the plate.
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That's not some kind of fish.
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Very prominent eyeballs.
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She welcomes him to this country, as he is from Japan as well.
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Tung Ku asks what is brought his friend here.
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And Wen Tien says things have gotten rough back in Japan.
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So we came here hoping to find work.
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Tung Ku says he's in luck.
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They have an opening for the casino manager position.
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And Tung Ku tells Wen Tien they can forego the normal application process since he knows him at all.
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But just be careful if there's any trouble.
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Don't hesitate to use your karate.
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Madam Tiao coquettishly grins at Wen Tien and tells him to go to the brothel and get himself a bird.
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Wen Tien needs clarification, but when he finds out that a bird is a woman, he chuckles and says that he'll take two.
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Tung Ku offers to accompany him, but Madam Tiao slams her fist on the table.
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"How dare you define me," she says.
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Tung Ku laughs nervously.
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He only meant he was going to show him the way.
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He's new in town.
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Tiao tells him to have someone else show him around.
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And when has Tung Ku done about the girl who broke into the casino?
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So Tung Ku sends Tang Sek Ping back to the inn to bring back the girl.
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Again.
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Third times the charm.
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And now that shy,i quiet, unable to fight girl, arrives at home where the not so late, Ling Shi-hua is standing.
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He's chopping wood with various body parts.
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So he's keeping up his training.
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If I know that her name is Hsuang Hsuang, she goes straight into the house to fetch a jacket for Ling Shi-hua.
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She puts it on him and excitedly tells him about the girl who smashed up the casino and beat Madam Tiao's little brother, Tiao Hung.
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Ling Shi-hua asks why she would do that.
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And Hsuang Hsuang tells him that the girl was looking for him.
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Ling Shi-hua wonders how that could be.
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He hasn't left this place in three years.
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And Hsuang Hsuangwonders if Ling Shi-hua is hiding something from her.
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Ling Shi-hua says that Hsuang Hsuang once saved his life and he wouldn't hide anything from her.
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Hsuang Hsuang wonder why this woman would ask for him by name.
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Ling Shi-hua pauses.
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Could it be her?
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He asks.
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Who?
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Hsuang Hsuang.
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Tien Li-Ying says Ling Shi-hua slowly.
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I thought she was supposed to be dead.
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Ling Shi-hua admits that she'd heard she killed herself after he left her.
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Hsuang Hsuang says that the woman in the casino was a very young woman.
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But also that he should just forget about it.
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Hsuang Hsuang has been spreading the word all over town that Ling Shi-hua was killed by Tung Ku's men.
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And that woman will never find him here.
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Ling Shi-hua asks for more news from town.
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She says, same old, same old, casinos, brothels, opium dens, all run by Madam Tiao.
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Ling Shi-hua says that Madam Tiao is a cover and that Tung Ku is the real power behind the throne.
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And the time is coming for the two of them to face off.
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Hsuang Hsuang asked if he's ready for that and Ling Shi-hua says he's ready for anything if it means he can rid the world of Tung Koo and his evil.
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Hsuang Hsuang asked when he's planning on leaving.
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Right now, says Ling Shi-hua.
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Hsuang Hsuangi asks.
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Then Tiao says to be careful and that she'll be waiting for him.
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And he manages to take three steps when he sees her.
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He recognizes her as does Hsuang Hsuang.
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Obviously, she just saw her a little while ago.
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The woman introduces herself as Tien Li-Ying's sister, Tien Li-Chun.
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And from now on, we'll resume calling her Miss Tien.
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Ling Shi-hua.
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And as somebody's got to say for himself, after all, he killed her sister.
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Ling Shi-hua says he didn't kill her.
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But Miss Tien says that if he hadn't jilted her while she was pregnant with his baby, then she would never have killed herself.
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Hsuang Hsuang protested that she's not that kind of man.
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But Ling Shi-hua admits that it kind of is his fault that Tien Li-Ying is dead.
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But he also tries to excuse himself by saying that it wasn't that he meant to leave her.
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There's just circumstances beyond his control.
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Hsuang Hsuang runs toward the house and tears.
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Ling Shi-hua goes after her and Miss Tien flies through the air and comes down in front of Ling Shi-hua
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with her hands up punching and feet of kicking.
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In between taking punches, Ling Shi-hua says he understands that this is something she has to do and he doesn't blame her.
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But he asks for just one day so he can get his revenge on Tung Koo.
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But Miss Tien says that she isn't that stupid.
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What if Tung Ku kills him before she gets a chance to?
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And she starts wailing on him again.
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But then he resumes begging.
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Then Hsuang Hsuang comes back out of the house and clobber's Miss Tien over the head with a bucket.
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Ling Shi-hua tries to thank her, but Hsuang Hsuang is not ready to listen to him.
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Hsuang Hsuang starts prattling on about how she saved him and he decided to become a better man and he's understood her feelings for him and that's why he's hit his path from her.
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So brave and noble of him.
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But that was then and this is now and now he's got to go.
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He starts off again and Hsuang Hsuang starts after him, calling his name but he keeps going.
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Hsuang Hsuang stops to stare at the still and conscious Miss Tien laying on the ground.
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Ling Shi-hua arrives at the casino and Tung Ku's men are shocked to see him.
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Seeing that they believe he's been dead for the last three years, it's you says Tang Sek Ping.
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You're supposed to be dead.
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This time I'm going to kill you to clear Ling Shi-hua.
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Then there's more fighting over and around the bar.
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Tung Ku's are thrown and kicks are kicked.
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There's some nice choreography during this fight, but you'll have to check it out for yourself because there's no way we can do it just as frivolly.
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The fight ends when Tang Sek Ping jumps out the window to escape.
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Though it's a paper window, it crashes like it's made of glass.
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Tang Sek Ping makes a run for it with Tien Li-Chun catches up to him.
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They fight to the death, specifically Tang Sek Ping's.
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Then suddenly Hsuang Hsuangappears to help Ling Shi-hua wonders what she's doing there.
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Hsuang Hsuang says that she's coming with him.
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Ling Shi-hua sends her away.
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She's not made for this, but she threatens to go fight Tung Ku on her own if she isn't allowed to come with him.
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Ling Shi-hua lifts up his hand as if to strike her and Hsuang Hsuang has been closed as her eyes and waits for the blow.
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But it never comes.
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All right, concedes Ling Shi-hua. Let's go.
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And again, they get all of three steps when Miss Tien arrives.
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Ready to fight, but Hsuang Hsuang gets down underneath and begs her nicely for one more day.
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Miss Tien relents and lets him leave, but says that she'll be waiting for them.
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And now we're at Madame Tiao's headquarters and Ling Shi-hua arrives with Hsuang Hsuang.
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Tung Ku's men are sparring, but they stop when Ling Shi-hua and Hsuang Hsuang appear in an entrance way.
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"It's you," says Tiau Hung. "Surprised, huh?" says Ling Shi-hua.
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"Tell Tung Ku that I'm here. Tiau Hung says that the way Ling Shi-hua fights, calling Tung Ku won't be necessary.
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All right, says Ling Shi-hua. Then I guess I'll start with you. Ling Shi-hua tells Hsuang Hsuang to wait outside,
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but she's good. She'll wait right there."
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"Yes, so then they fight, as of course they always do. And even Hsuang Hsuang gets down on the action throwing a few cardi chops herself."
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"The second time through because I had already watched it. I was just watching her. She is so funny."
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"She's like in the back going like this and there's nobody around."
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"She gets a couple of punches in, but most of them she's just swinging and there's nobody near her."
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"Well, she's keeping them away. If you can't take anybody out, you just look crazy and they'll leave you alone."
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"But suddenly Wen Tien, Tung Ku and Madame Tiao are there in formation. Wen Tien is the first to approach Ling Shi-hua."
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"He steps on to the sandals again. He's got this. He steps forward and he and Ling Shi-hua fight. Ren-cheng is doing very well and Tung Koo and Madame Tiao share in him used laugh.
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Shwang Shui tries to help Ling Shihau and Madame Tiao snags her foot with a whip."
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"Just as Wen Tien delivers the disabling blow to Ling Shi-hua, Tung Ku demands his men take Ling Shi-hua and bury him alive."
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From outside, Miss Tien is watching and she's not happy with this turn of events.
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Ling Shi-hua has been taken away. Madame Tiao gives Hsuang Hsuang to Wen Tien to use as he pleases and then give to the brothel. But maybe give her to Madame Tau's brother first."
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Wen Tien happily claims his prize. But as he laughs evenly in her face, she smacks him.
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"Now when the forest and Tiao Hung and the other men have buried Ling Shi-hua up to his ears in the makeshift grave when Miss Tien makes her presence known."
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"You again?" asked Tiao Heng. Miss Tien says he's fought her once before and lost. What makes him think this time will be any different?
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Tiao Hung asks why she's tormenting them? "I'm not," she says. "I have nothing against you guys." She wants Ling Shi-hua."
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"And they're denying her that particular pleasure. They only need to walk away and they'll never see her again."
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"Tiao Hung decides to fight instead and they go at it and eventually she jams his body into the crotch of a group of saplings and he's killed."
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"The rest of the minions seeing this run away."
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"Back at Madame Tiao's, she and Tung Ku and Wen Tien are enjoying humiliating Hsuang Hsuang when the men return from the woods."
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"The report that Tiao Hung has been killed by that girl and Tung Ku decides his time for him to take matters into his own hands."
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"He tells Madame Tiao to keep an eye on Hsuang Hsuang and she delegates that to a minion after Tung Ku leaves. I know we're with Ling Shi-hua and he's coming to seeing Miss Tien looming over him somehow. He's not covered in dirt."
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"Hsuang Hsuang," he asks? Reaching out for her. "I am not Hsuang Hsuang," she says, pushing him back to the ground.
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Ling Shi-hua realizes who she is and thinks Miss Tien for saving his life. She says it was nothing. She just didn't want anyone else to kill him.
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Ling Shi-hua begs Miss Tien to go save Hsuang Hsuang. "Why should I," asks Miss Tien? She's nothing to me. Then I'll do it myself so she'll Ling Shi-hua. He stands up and probably falls backwards back onto the ground."
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Then he begs Miss Tien again to save her, saying she mustn't die. Then he keeps moaning "Hsuang Hsuang, Hsuang Hsuang until she finally rolls her eyes and agrees to do it.
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Miss Tien leaves Ling Shi-huato go rescue Hsuang Hsuang and once alone, Ling Shi-hua gets up and staggers off on his own rescue mission, going "Hsuang Hsuang" all the way.
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Then we see that Tung, Ku and his minions are patrolling the forest. After that brief scene, we're back at Madam Tiao's headquarters. Miss Tien has arrived.
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Miss Tien breaks into Madam Tiao's and fights the minions that are there, as well as disarming the whip-wielding Madam Tao and breaking her leg in the process. Then she rescues Hsuang Hsuang carrying her outside on her back.
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"It's good as any man. In the forest, the minions have split up into groups. Wen Tien goes off with two minions of his own. I know we're at the lake, where Miss Tirn is tending to Hsuang Hsuang and thinking that Ling Shi-hua is dead says that she'd also rather be dead than the other.
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She promises to stay with him forever.
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Miss Tien tells Hsuang Hsuang that Ling Shi-hua is still alive and Hsuang Hsuang is suddenly renewed with energy. She tells Miss Tien that Ling Shi-hua is a good man. They take care of each other the past three years, and she asks Miss Tien to please set aside her vendetta against Ling Shi-hua, at least until after he's had the chance to face off with Tung Ku.
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Miss Tien says fine, but once he's killed Tung Ku, she'll settle with Ling Shi-hua. Then Wen Tien shows up with a couple of Tung Ku's cronies.
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"Do you know who I am?" he asks. She does, but she doesn't care. He may be a master of karate, but she has a few moves herself.
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The two of them fight, there's a lot of air flips, and she somehow manages to jump up and drop-kick Wen Tien. Then a well-position strike means the end of him.
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The two cronies start to run off, but Miss Tien tells them to give Tung Ku a message, get off her back, or he'll end up like his friend Wen Tien.
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Then she returns to Hsuang Hsuang, who tells her that Miss Tien is amazing. Miss Tien knows that, and she wants to take Hsuang Hsuang home, but Hsuang Hsuang wants to go find Ling Shi-hua. She's really worried about him.
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Miss Tian says Hsuang Hsuang's wounds are serious, and that she should go home and rest. She'll find Ling Shi-hua and bring him to her. Hsuang Hsuang agrees.
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But then next we see Miss Tien returning to the temple where she left Ling Shi-hua, and of course he's not there. She damns him, and then goes off trying to find him.
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But we find him first. Ling Shi-hua is stumbling through the woods when he comes upon an old man crawling weekly through the brush. The man whispers that he was bitten by a poisonous snake. I'm sure he meant venomous, and that he isn't from around here, so he has no place to go. He's from Korea. And he came here to find medicinal herbs.
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Ling Shi-hua says he'll help him find a place to lie down. He picks up the man, who rides piggyback, and Ling Shi-hua takes him back to the temple.
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You're not that well yourself notices the man. Ling Shi-hua says he's fine and tells the man he should rest. The old man pulls out a snake bitten shin, and Ling Shi-hua says he can go out and look for any herbs the man might require.
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I guess there's no harm in trying says the man. And he writes down a prescription for Ling Shi-hua to try to fill.
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Ling Shi-hua goes off in search of whatever was on that list. Back at Hsuang Hsuang's place, Miss Tien makes a bowl of broth and brings it to Hsuang Hsuang.
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Hsuang Hsuang is grateful, but Miss Tien says she's only staying there until Ling Shi-hua returns. Hsuang Hsuang wonders if he'll ever be back.
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Miss Tien says he will return if he keeps his promises. Back at the ruins of that temple, the old man is feeling better and wishes he could help Ling Shi-hua. Now that he knows Ling's backstory.
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Ling Shi-hua says that's okay. I'd rather deal with this alone. But if only he was a better fighter. The old man pulls on a book and has it to Ling Shi-hua. It's called the art of Tai Chi, and it could prove to be a big help to him.
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Ling Shi-hua thumbs through it as the old man explains how it works.
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It's powerful yet simple, intricate, yet whatever, a kind of less track of what he was saying. The explanation is very complicated and long-winded, and he asks if Ling Shi-hua understands it.
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Ling Shi-hua doesn't say either way. The old man then promises to train him starting tomorrow. And the next day, we get a training montage.
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Ling Shi-hua is punching barrels of stones until his hands are bloody pulps. Then he stops and starts punching the stones again.
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Then he picks up a large rock, throws it into the air, and catches it on his fingertips. He would doing very well, smiles the old man.
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Now let's see your kicking. Ling Shi-hua demonstrates his kicking.
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He's kicking the heads off haystacks or bundles of hay tied to stakes in the ground.
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Excellent, says the old man. Now let's practice your breathing. Ling Shi-hua says beside the old man and breathes in deeply.
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Suddenly, a bunch of Tung ku’s men enter the temple. So there you are. We'll kill you this time.
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They attack, but Ling Shi-hua disarms them. Ling then has to fight off all the men, not at once, of course, as the old man watches proudly.
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Ling Shi-hua punches through stomachs and brains as opponents. And suddenly one breaks away and goes over to the old man. He stomps on his injured leg.
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Ling Shi-hua tries to come to the defense of his new friend and when Ling Shi-hua kills that man in a painful way, the other man flees for their lives.
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They're a good daddle. I don't know what was happening, but he was holding his balls.
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The guy who stomped on the old man, I missed what happened by a solid reaction. He was like fully his crotch, while he was moving and groaning on the ground. Then he just kind of went, "Ugh!"
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I guess it's as bad as you guys always say it is. Ling Shi-hua goes to the old man and seeing that he is dead, buries him outside the temple. Then he returns to Hsuang Hsuang.
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She asks where he's been and he tells her he's been shacking up with an old man who taught him the art of Tai Chi.
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Miss Tirn is there and Ling Shi-hua has to go through the whole thing again. He still needs to kill Tung Ku, so she still needs to wait before she can kill him.
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And he's going to go do that tomorrow. Once tomorrow comes, we're at the HQ with Ling Shi-hua and Miss Tien.
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She's coming on to make sure that Ling Shi-hua gets a fair fight and that Tung Ku won't kill him. That's her job.
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Tung Ku is there, of course, and he and Ling Shi-hua spar verbally first. Tung Ku decides that he doesn't want to fight at the headquarters. They're going to take it outside.
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So they all returned to the riverbed where Ling Shihau was left for dead three years earlier.
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Ling Shi-hua and Tung Koo go at it and Ling Shi-hua uses his new Tai Chi skills.
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I think it looks at first as though Tung Ku has the upper hand. Ling Shi-hua seems to be foundering it first, or he's just getting very tired because he had to fight all the other guys too.
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But eventually the tide turns. He does damage to both of Tung Ku's eyes.
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He punches his lights out literally.
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Putting Tung Ku at an extreme disadvantage.
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Finally, Ling Shi-hua punches through Tung Ku's gut and though Tung Ku tries to rob some dirt on it, he falls down and expires.
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Now it's Miss Tien's turn to fight Ling Shi-hua.
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Finally.
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They start to fight but Hsuang Hsuang runs up and begs her to stop. He's exhausted from all the fighting he's done and it just wouldn't be fair.
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She's such a buzzkill.
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But Miss Tien believes she's been more than patient and it's finally time for this fight.
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She goes on the offensive again and Ling Shi-hua ducks and the blow meant for him lands instead on Hsuang Hsuang.
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Yeah, she gets karate chopped in the back. She's hurt pretty bad, but she's still in there pleading for Ling Shi-hua's life.
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Finally, Miss Tien is head enough of these losers.
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She agrees to let them live their lives telling Ling Shi-hua that he better take care of Hsuang Hsuang. Then she stamps off angrily as Ling Shi-hua and Hsuang Hsuang gaped her.
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And that's the end.
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Welcome back to the American International podcast where we're talking about Deep Thrust from 1973.
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Deep Thrustar Angela Mao, also known as Mao Ying, studied at a Peking Opera School from ages 6 to 14, where she learned martial arts along with stagecraft.
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She was discovered by director Wang Feng and signed a golden harvest. She started over three dozen martial arts films before retiring in 1992.
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According to Susan Grau in a syndicated column published in September of 1973 Raymond Chao, General Manager and Production Chief for Shaw Brothers,
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one of the largest movie companies in the world and the largest in Hong Kong, but in 1971 to form his own company, Golden Harvest Limited and signed Bruce Lee as an actor.
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In his autobiography, Flying Through Hollywood by the Sea of My Pants, Samuel Z. Arkov wrote that A.I.P tapped into another look at her genre in the early 70s.
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He said they produced and/or distributed more than a dozen of these Kung Fu pictures.
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He added, "Deep Thrust was a takeoff on Deep Throat, which in 1972 had become the most famous pornographic film of all time.
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But if someone who paid to see Deep Thrust was expecting to see Asia's answer to Linda Lovelace, they were seriously disappointed.
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Yes, there was an attractive female Kung Fu expert in the picture, but she didn't do anything kinkier than propeller well-ammed right foot into the midsection of her opponents.
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In one scene, a martial arts combatant jams his fingers to the belly of one of his enemies.
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As one of my employees quipped, that's about the only penetration the audience is going to see in this movie."
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Deep Thrust was released in the United States in late April 1973.
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The film was released titled Lady World Wind in other countries like Canada and the UK.
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Ux Office Magazine recommended Theodor owners create a tie-in event with self-defense schools, play up the woman's lib angle, and suggest addressing the staff in "oriental costumes."
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The Theodor One film society in Coventry England held a special performance of Lady World Wind at 1am on Sunday.
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April 23rd 1973 opened exclusively to members of their film society and published an entry application for all those who wish to join and thus attend the special screening.
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The Stardust Club opened by Windsor Entertainment's limited at the Odeon in Lester Square, shows Lady World Wind as their opening program. In both cities they made a big deal of it.
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In New York City, archaeo theaters showing Deep Thrust held a demonstration of karate and Kung Fu by champion master Tiger Kim, a 7-degree black belt and master instructor at the Korea Taekwondo Tiger Karate School in the Bronx before showings.
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Taglines for Deep Thrust include Lady World Wind, "Mrs. of the Death Blow."
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See Kung Fu karate at its deadliest. See Judo Jujitsu Savat, "All the Deadly Arts battling for supremacy." See, the deadliest woman in the world take on a dozen skill fighters, Barehanded.
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Deep Thrust, "The Deadly Stroke of Barehand Combat." The best in karate, "The Lady World Wind of Kung Fu."
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Robert Taylor in his stage in screen column wrote in May of 1973 that, quote, "The hottest new movies in the country are neither the last tango in Paris nor the black exploitation melodramas.
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But the Kung Fu adventures which the trade papers are calling Wonton Westerns. The latest arrival from Hong Kong is Deep Thrust, imported by American International, which gave us the beach party in motorcycle maniac movies.
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Deep Thrust, the hand of death grabbed $42,000 at the box office in its first day in New York. Deep Thrust made nearly $1.2 million at the North American box office altogether.
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Also in May of '73, Francis Taylor wrote about the martial arts movie phenomenon, which included hits like Warner Brothers 5 Fingers of Death.
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She wrote a new movie in this class as Deep Thrust, in which a woman warrior is starred.
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Making money is essential to the film industry, so no one can fall distributors for stepping up this newest product.
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But what element in this country's audience are buying the product? Young audiences chiefly, we have reached the point of saturation with the recent black movies of violence and who can no longer accept recent US Westerns because they are becoming familiar with new surprises left.
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John Crichtendons column, published in the hack and sack New Jersey record, again in early May of 1973, said, "As you probably know, going to a movie in Manhattan can be as much of a trip as the movie one sees."
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And, "Crichtendons saw Deep Thrust in wrote, quote, the box office lady was selling tickets as fast as she could, even though every seat was filled.
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"Standys were three and four deep in the balcony and downstairs. The view was poor in both places and the standys were milling. They were still selling tickets when I wriggled out past the crowd in front of the theater."
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Of the film, he wrote, quote, "I believe its main distinction is in its use of women characters. Deep Thrust is a historical costume drama, with T-houses serving as the equivalent of the Old West saloons."
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He also saw Bruce Lee and Fist of Fury and concluded, quote, "I don't know how Kung Fu films have been greeted in suburbia, but in the city when the violence heats up, the audience starts to cheer and rustle.
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It's easy to get caught up in it, and it's half the experience of seeing Kung Fu."
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Although Deep Thrust was not a hit when it was released in Hong Kong, after its US release where Mao was billed as the mistress of the death blow, it was very successful.
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Eating the type of varieties' backstaff is charts. Mao's other films, like Lady Kung Fu, originally titled "Hapquido" and "Deadly Chinatall," originally the opium trail, were released here to similar success.
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Mao was a feature player in Bruce Lee's "Enter the Dragon," which was a blockbuster hit in foreign markets before it was released in Hong Kong.
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Harry F. Thamel and the Wilmington Delaware News Journal wrote in his review of Deep Thrust, quote, "Kharkha, pow, whack, crack, chong, uya, a'eep bud."
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Those are not meaningless combinations of letters, but rather represent half of the soundtrack of Deep Thrust.
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The other half consists of kindergarten-played rejects dubbing in English for a cast of Hong Kong actors to the accompaniment of a 1924 score.
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Perhaps the most annoying element in this piece of garbage is that the soundtrack's karate chops have no relationship in sound or timing to what's happening on the screen.
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All of this is brought directly from Hong Kong by Hallmark Releasing, those marvelant merchants of muck.
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The Miami News' short review of Deep Thrust read, a Chinese moral tale, dubbed into English, about a karate-chapping supergirl out to revenge her sister's death.
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Title aside, there's no sex, but lots and lots and lots and lots of violence.
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Technically a bomb. News rating, bloody camp, skip it.
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Dave McIntyre of the Coffey News Service called Deep Thrust, quote, "more Hong Kong, hocom, and karate falter all," saying, quote, "anyone who attends a screening of Deep Thrust mistakenly believing that he's going to see a similarly title."
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The scene is seen as similarly titled picture, which is in current circulation, is in for a rude awakening as well as potential disappointment.
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He said the plot, quote, "very well could have been made over from an old Boston Black e-script, Shanghai to the Far East by Raymond Chow's Desperados.
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The difference here is that the leading character is female, and Viva La different alts. Angela Mao is quite a dish, saucer than Mugugu Guy Pan.
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It's chop chop ball the way for Angela as she wades through assorted bad guys, and a plot that's leakier than a paper umbrella.
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And that review got even more racist after this if you can believe it." The Los Angeles Times review blurb said,
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"Deep Thrust was the worst of the Chinese karate movies this far, featuring badly staged fights and an unattractive performance by Angela Mao.
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As a martial arts mix, and on bare-handed destruction of every male in sight. In the paper's longer review, written by Frederick Milstein,
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he called the film "the worst-written, worst directed, worst-dubbed, worst photograph to the current rash of martial arts movies, calling it a completely sexless saga of a ruthless female who kicks a lot of guys in the groin but fails to strike a blow for a women's lib."
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Fox office magazine said in its review that, quote, "the film has been doing phenomenal business in early openings and should wind up is one of AIP's top grocers this year.
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Subtitled the hand of death has been added to avoid confusion with sex-ploitation picks, but obviously no one is being misled.
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There's absolutely no sex, but plenty of violent action. A new twist has E poking his fingers into the chest of his opponents, which is really carrying a death blow to the extreme.
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Despite the overdubbing of sound effects on a poor English soundtrack, Deep Thrust is one of the better films in the current cycle."
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[Music]
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Well, before we get started on discussing the film, I wanted to address the review from the Los Angeles Times. I kind of think that the same person wrote both parts of it, and it just struck me as a really anti-female take on the movie because it's wrong.
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She wasn't trying to destroy every man inside. It's just that all the people attacking her were men. She just wanted to destroy one man, and the others kept getting in her way.
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Yeah, as I was reading that, I was thinking the same thing. It wasn't really an accurate description of what was going on, and sounds like this guy is just kind of a woman-hater.
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It does very much so. You get along very well in today's society, where female heroines are to be ridiculed and not revered.
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And given terrible ratings on rotten tomatoes, yeah.
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And I must say that's unfortunate that that's the case. I don't condone that.
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No, no, of course not. The reviews that we read, there's really only one that gave it any kind of a positive spin, and that was the box office magazine one, which was basically saying that it's going to do really well in the theaters, which it did.
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I am at a loss as to why people reviewing this movie had such animus towards it. I have just as much a response to box office legging as much as they did.
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Because it's a good movie, but I wouldn't say it's among the best. I don't know about the era, but I've seen a lot of martial arts movies, and this one is probably lower upper tier, but I've definitely seen better.
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But those were the ones with the wacky or premises.
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The ones with the wacky or premises where they're better or worse than this one.
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They're more fun. They're not necessarily better movies, but they're more fun to watch because of the wackiness.
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I don't know. I thought that there was a lot to enjoy in this movie. Obviously anyone who's criticizing the soundtrack, of course I agree with them. It's so obnoxious. The extremely loud.
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It sounds like somebody's playing whack-a-mol or something like constantly.
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They're just hitting trees or something with a stick. It just doesn't make any sense, and it's just way over the top. If they had to have a sound effect every time a blow lands or is close to landing, it didn't have to be that loud or that wood on wood kind of sound.
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Could you imagine if the sound of flesh hitting flesh actually made that kind of a popping sound all the time? Imagine a boxing would be a totally different kind of sword.
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What if the words appeared over their bodies like they font up the words "pow" crash bang? That would be interesting.
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The Anomatopoeia? Yes. The Anomatopoeia of it all.
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But it was an interesting angle that this is a woman warrior, but then the movie didn't allow her to complete this mission that was so crucial to her.
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Not only that, but it was just kind of disappointing that she's allegedly the main character the one supposed to be watching.
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She gets in a few fights, but never with the guys she's trying to fight.
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He takes over the movie.
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Yeah, he takes over the movie. It's just disappointing because we want to see Angela Mao do her thing.
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I think at the very least they should have given us some of Tian Li Shun's backstory.
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There could have been a flashback sequence where she was training or something to get her revenge or something, giving her a little more to do and giving us a chance to see her getting a little more to do.
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The only thing that is really getting a workout here is her patience with Ling Xiaow and Shuan Shaiing.
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We're constantly asking just for one more day, but there's never going to be enough days.
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You know, he was probably never going to kill that guy before.
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It's only luck that he learned a little Tai Chi and was able to take him out.
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Well, if there's one lesson I learned from this film is that whining is winning.
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Just ask a current president of a certain country.
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Yeah, that does seem to be a lot to be gained by begging, pleading, having a pretty girl do your begging and pleading for you.
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It's a little embarrassing after a while.
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Very embarrassing watching Ling Xiaow just go, "Swan, swan, swan, swan, swan, swan, swan, swan."
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Until he eventually drives Miss Tian crazy.
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She rolls her eyes and says, "Okay, fine. Just shut up."
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Kara, I love at the end where you can see her kind of stomping off into the distance like, "Oh my god, I wasted all this time with these losers.
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I didn't even get to kill him."
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Yeah, the story really let her down, I think.
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But even so, I thought it was fun to watch this movie. They added a lot of goofiness to it.
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The emo kid Taohong and then Tung Koo with his Benoit balls.
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They just keep clacking all the time for no reason. Nobody explains it. They're not weapons.
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He's just walking around clacking balls all the time.
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It's like a fidget spinner, like I said.
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The characters have a lot of cricks in these movies that aren't explained.
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And we just go with it because we're seeing it.
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Rin Chen and his sandals.
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And his Toji?
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Yes, Toji Topnot and Madam Tao with her cigarette holder.
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I think it says silly movie that's fun. I don't think it's a serious martial arts movie by any stretch of the imagination.
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And yet, you can still have fun with it.
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I think it's a fun movie. It's just disappointing that the Miss Tian character has so little to do.
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Because she could have been really awesome.
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All the fights that she gets into are almost accidental. And the fight that she wants to have, she never gets to.
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She has to kind of pull her punches because she really isn't trying to kill every man out there.
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She's just trying to make it so that she can get the one man she wants.
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And that's why I think the best fight sequence in the whole movie is the one in the casino when Link Shau shows up.
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And it's all the men fighting.
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She's not even involved in that fight.
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But I think it's the best choreographed.
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I think it's the most action in that one.
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I don't think I noticed that in particular as being better than any of the others.
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I think I more enjoyed the final one when Link Shau kills Tung Koo.
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I like that one better.
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Oh, because you knew the movie was almost over.
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Yeah, that's exactly it.
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But finally, Link Shau has competence or he hadn't really had it before.
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Since they weren't going to let Miss Tien do this job for him, he finally was able to get his own revenge.
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Whereas before he was just getting beat up all the time.
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Been training for three years and he hasn't gotten any better.
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Well, he was training with swung swung.
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So she's not an old snake bit man with herbs and a Tai Chi book.
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He was just chopping wood with his hands.
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And anybody can do that, apparently.
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I think it's interesting the way that this film was handled being a hallmark release because it was handled a little differently than any of the others.
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This one, A.I.P. really seemed to get behind.
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They obviously saw something in this film because the poster for a hallmark releasing film still had the A.I. logo on it.
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And I don't think any of the others from hallmark ever did.
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Plus, this one was in color and all the other posters I've seen have been black and white.
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The exception of the mark of the devil poster, which is black and red and white.
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And I don't think they were ashamed of this at all.
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Samuel Z.Arcoff mentions this in particular in his autobiography as being one of the movies that they were really happy to get behind.
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And obviously it did very well.
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There were several articles I didn't publish from every single one of them.
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But at this moment in time, martial arts movies were just taking over the cinemas.
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It was literally a phenomenon that needed commenting on.
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And Deep Thrust was just on the Vanguard of that wave.
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And I haven't seen a ton of martial arts movies, but I've seen more than a few.
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And to have the sounds of a ping pong tournament going on during a fight isn't really common, at least in the ones that I have seen.
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I'll have to watch a few more.
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I think he said there was like a dozen.
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I could think of a few, but I'm having trouble thinking of that many.
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I know there's Hong Kong cat, which is another hallmark one.
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Golden needles.
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Golden needles might be considered one screaming tiger is one.
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Yeah, golden needles are supposed to be one of the better ones.
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Oh, Joe Don Baker.
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So yeah.
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Oh, no.
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Lord help us.
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And since there's only three women in this whole movie, I think it would have been better to see the other women do more.
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Madam Tao disappears after her leg gets stepped on and we presume broken.
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Shwaiying Shwaiying is kind of a pitiful whiner and all she does is beg for her man.
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We do see her fighting in one scene.
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It's kind of silly that she's not really doing much, but it would have been nice to have her help defend herself if not anyone else.
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She does get a couple of punches in during that fight.
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And I don't think she takes any until the death blow at the end she takes.
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That I guess not that blow she still lives, but pretty well wounded.
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She's winged.
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I think it would have been a lot more fun to see Shwaiying Shwaiying and Missy Ann team up and have them take on all these thugs together.
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If they wanted a real feminist feel good movie, and Link Shahau could have stood in the back and he wouldn't have been such a pitiful character.
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What if the fight was a draw and Tanku and Link Shahau both didn't make it and then Missy Ann takes Shwaiying Shwaiying under her wing and they go off to a sequel?
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Yeah, it's like her new sister and she trains her in the art of Kung Fu.
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I would have loved to see more strong female action.
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Yeah, I would mind seeing another movie featuring the Missy Ann character.
562
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I don't believe there was one.
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It seems like there should have been because she certainly didn't have a lot to do in this one.
564
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So a sequel might have been a good thing for her.
565
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All right, Jeff.
566
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So we've read the critics reviews.
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We've kind of danced around our own feelings about the movie, but it's time to put a letter grade on Deep Thrust using our AAP scale where A is awesome.
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I as intermediate and P is pathetic.
569
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What grade do you give Deep Thrust?
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Well, as I said, this is a fun movie, but it's not as fun as the most fun martial arts movies in that it's a pretty straight story.
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And when you get down to it, it's actually a little disappointing with the main character not having much to do.
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So I'm just going to give this one an eye.
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I'm afraid I still think people should go watch it, check it out because there's definitely a lot worse martial arts movies.
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You can find out there, but I don't think this is good enough to write an awesome grade.
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And your thoughts?
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Much the same.
577
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I do want to say that it's on the high side of an eye and that just like you, I would definitely recommend watching it.
578
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I am not a martial arts person at all.
579
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I would never seek out a martial arts movie on my own.
580
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And I was dreading this one a little bit.
581
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It's kind of annoying, but it's not that bad.
582
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And there is a lot of fun to be had watching this, but it's hard to ignore the ways that this movie really let down the main character.
583
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And for that, I just have to take off a letter grade.
584
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If it had really been out, Lady Worldwind, it definitely would have had A potential.
585
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