Fangs of the Tigress

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Brent A 10% ... Very peculiar and weird plot. Tiresome action sequences. Do not recommend. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 11/10/24 Full Review Audience Member Written and directed by Lau Kar Leung, this martial arts comedy is better than most. I'm typically not a fan of most martial arts comedies and find the comedy too broad and mostly just annoying. Kara Wai Ying Hung plays a young martial artist who agrees to marry an elderly landowner so that his fortunes won't fall to his greedy brother. When she inherits the fortune, the unscrupulous brother then does everything he can to steal away his brother's money. Kara Hui is quite good in the lead and does a fine job of carrying the film, while the buffoonish antics of the men around her nearly ruin the film. Lau Kar Leung gets the lion's share of credit for the film working, staging some terrific marital arts sequences. Although this was made in the early 80s, it feels like a rather old fashioned kung-fu action flick, but it's a pretty entertaining one. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Easily one of the best that the martial arts genre has to offer. With developed character, a little bit of humour, and a great story, My Young Auntie is a fantastic mix of action and laughs. The three part action climax is also awe inspiring, with the four uncles helping to defeat a group of henchmen. Then they battle two fierce bodyguards, and it culminates into a final duel. It pretty much proves that in order for a martial arts movie to be great, you must have good characters and story to contain the fight scenes. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/05/23 Full Review Audience Member Divertissant dans l'ensemble pour un film de kung fu, mais il y a des longueurs. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/14/23 Full Review Audience Member It spends a peculiar amount of time establishing the odd relationship between the Auntie, her nephew (twenty years her senior) and grand nephew (about her age). There's great comedy, and the movie really picks up in the thirty minute assault on the Third Uncle's house. Gordon Liu shows up, but sadly he only dances and fights with a sword. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member An unalloyed triumph of kung fu comedy. Kara Hui is a marvel to watch in action as she's known as the best Hong Kong heroine of early 1980s and she is also underrated in terms of beauty. I see what actor-director-writer Chia Liang Liu has done with this film is really a pleasant surprise: he has taken a martial-arts plot and re-constructed it along the lines of a Hollywood-style musical! Complete with episodes of singing and dancing! It was around the time of the making of this film that some film-makers and film fans began to recognize that the cinematic performance of martial-arts (really derived from the acrobatics of the Chinese opera) has more in common with dance than with fighting. The result is an incredibly charming entertainment, filled with marvelously human characters attempting miraculous kung fu. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/10/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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