Dong fang san xia
Directed by:
Kei-fung ToScreenplay:
Sandy ShawComposer:
William Wai-Lap WuCast:
Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, Maggie Cheung, Anthony Wong, Damian Lau, Shi-Kwan Yen, Keith Siu-Kei Lee, Mimi Chu, Yat-Fei Wong, Philip Keung, Louis Yuen (more)Plots(1)
Michelle Yeoh, Anita Mui, and Maggie Cheung form an unstoppable combination as three powerful martial arts experts -- each with her own secret superhero identity -- who band together to battle the ultimate evil! Their foe is a demented but powerful wizard who believes that if he kidnaps all the babies in China he can build a demonic ruling class and eventually dominate the world. With everything on the line, it's up to the Heroic Trio -- Shadow Fox, Mercy, and Invisible Woman -- to rise up and stop him! (official distributor synopsis)
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Three incredibly sexy Chinese women, led by my favourite Michelle Yeoh, in cheesy movie sets (at times it looks like a Brno TV studios fairy-tale), with second-hand music, and perhaps only the notorious "Happy, Happy, Halloween" theme accompanying one of the superheroines. A bit of a bizarre Hong Kong answer to the comic book movies of the Hollywood dream factory, with the occasional flying duel a la Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, some severed fingers and heads, which you won't see in Marvel movies, as well as dying kids and a walking skeleton with leftover meat. The whole thing is kind of overblown and exaggerated, but in a nice, rather amusing way.
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