The Vengeful Beauty (1978)
"Xue fu rong" (original title)

Director:

Meng Hua Ho

Writer:

On Szeto

Stars:

Ping Chen, Hua Yueh, Lieh Lo

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Ping Chen	...	Rong Qiu Yan / Bloody Hibiscus
Hua Yueh	...	Wang Jun / Qiu Yan' ex-lover
Lieh Lo	...	Chin Kang-Feng / Flying Guillotine squad leader
Norman Chu	...	Ma Shen / Flying Guillotine defector (as Hsu Hsiao-Chiang)
Shaw Yin Yin	...	Chin Hsiao-Chi / Kang-Feng's daughter
Hung Wei	...	Emperor Yung Cheng (as Frankie Wei Hung)
Hui Huang Lin	...	Chin Jen-Ting
Lung Wei Wang	...	Chin Piao / Kang-Feng's second son
Sau Kei Lee	...	Scholar Wan
Sung-ling Li	...	Han Tien-Te / Qiu Yan's husband
Ching Ho Wang	...	Tung Bei-Hai / Han's uncle
Keung Hon	...	False Buddhist Monk
Nan Chiang	...	Official ordering the book burning
Ling Ling Hung	...	Qiu Yan's maid
Hung Lu	...	Madam Han / Han's mother

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

vengeance | impalement | father son relationship | mass killing | female killer | 

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Drama

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Mandarin

Release Date:

11 March 1978 (Hong Kong)

Also Known As:

The Vengeful Beauty

Company Credits

Production Co:

Shaw Brothers

Technical Specs

Runtime:

82 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital (DVD version) Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

One character is seen in trousers by the knee and a jacket in a cave and, in the next scene, the character splashes into a pond screaming for help. Another character takes the first out of water, topless and wearing see-through long underpants, which were impossible to find in such a cave, and impossible to dress up in the short time implied between the two takes.

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Connections

Follows The Flying Guillotine (1975)

User Reviews

Solid Kung Fu action

The fast pace of the film covers a lot of creaky film making. The plot basically follows the heroine as she attempts to get to her uncle after her husband is killed by the Flying Guillotine Squad.

What does this film deliver? We get a kung fu heroine whose fighting ability scares all the bad guys. We get gimmick kung-fu weapons galore. We get a brief topless woman kung fu fight (we need more of these). And we get well choreographed fights every 5 minutes.

The director is not in the same class as Cheng Cheh or Liu Chia Liang but the film never runs out of gas so the occasionally strange direction doesn't gets in the way. The director seems more comfortable with the drama scenes. The film is less grim then "The Flying Guillotine".

A good kung fu film, not a waste of time.