A Jin de gu shi (1996)

User Rating:

5.6/10   

Director:

Ann Hui

Writers:

Kin Chung Chan (writer)
Man Keung Chan (writer)

Release Date:

10 October 1996 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Drama

Plot:

A few years in the life of Ah Kam, starting with her joining action director Master Tung's team of regulars.

Plot Keywords:

Hong Kong | Beautiful Woman | Martial Arts

Cast

Michelle Yeoh	...	Ah Kam
Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	...	Chief Tung
Ken Lo	...	Ah Long
Hoi Mang	...	Copy (as Hoi Man)
Micheal Lam	...	Long Hair
Nick Cheung	...	Whacko
Paco Yick	...	Wah
Fai Chan	...	Chan
Crystal Kwok	...	Roomate
Rain Lau	...	Scarlet
Jimmy Wong Ga Lok	...	Sam (as Jimmy Wong)
Kent Cheng	...	Blackjack
Richard Ng	...	Detective
Satoshi Okada	...	Sam / Braided Chan - Evil
Damian Lau	...	Lawyer

Also Known As:

Ah Gam dik koo si (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Ah Kam (Hong Kong: English title)
The Stunt Woman

Runtime:

95 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:PG | South Korea:15

Trivia:

Michelle Yeoh suffered a serious injury when she misjudged an 18-foot jump from a bridge onto a truck. She fractured a vertebra and was in traction for a month.

Interesting if overlong drama with a wonderful Michelle Yeoh

"The Stunt Woman" is far from a perfect film - it is quite slow and meandering - but it gives Michelle Yeoh the chance to show her stuff in an atypical dramatic role: instead of playing an aggressive, super-confident superwoman, she is just a simple, easygoing, unassuming, brave woman trying to earn her living by doing what she's best at, doubling actors for dangerous movie stunts. Her mature, restrained performance is pretty much the whole show here - and she looks great, too. The film is absorbing most of the way, but I have to be honest here: when Sammo Hung's character (an action director) advises an aspiring screenwriter to "liven up" his romantic tragedy with a few fight scenes, I thought that this film itself might have benefited from a similar approach. OK, it was obviously designed as a change-of-pace for its stars, but it still seems kind of wasteful to have Michelle, Sammo and Ken Lo in your movie and have a total of about 3 short fight scenes in it. (**1/2)