english title | Lady with a Sword |
year | 1971 |
country | Hong-Kong |
director | GO Bo Shu | |
actor | JIN Bong-jin | |
LEE Ho | ||
LAM Jing | ||
GOO Man-Chung | ||
LEE Pang-Fei | ||
AU YEUNG Sha-Fei | ||
Bruce LEUNG Siu Lung | ||
James NAM Gung Fan | ||
Lily HO Li-Li - 何莉莉 | ||
WONG Ching Ho | ||
CHOW Kong | ||
WONG Hap - 王俠 | ||
LEI Lung | ||
action director | TSUI Yee-Ngau | |
HAN Ying Kit | ||
scriptwriter | NI Kuang |
production studio | Shaw Brothers 邵氏 |
In Lady With A Sword, Kao Pao-shu showed that women could successfully direct a "heroic swordsman" film using a swordswoman bent on revenge. Kao cast Shaw's darling Lily Ho as the embittered swordswoman searching for the man who murdered her sister. The man turns out to be her fiance' but her nihilistic fate stays true to lone swordswoman form, as to paraphrase Gary Cooper in High Noon, "A woman's got to do what a woman's got to do."