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THE DRAGON TAMERS Story Credits Pictures Video DVD
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Written:    
John Woo
Directed:    
John Woo 
Executive producer: 
Raymond Chow
Cast:
Ji Han Jae
James Tien 
Carter Wong 
Chin Chang-chu 
Yang Wei 
Ryoko Ina 
Keiko hara

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THE DRAGON TAMERS (1974)
 

Woo: The film was about learning judo and kung fu. I was trying to make a very high-spirited kung fu film, with a sense of chivalry, but after I finished it the company wanted to have a little sex in there. That's why I don't like the film so much.

Woo's first film as a director under his new contract with Golden Harvest. Filmed in 1974, in South Korea like many other Golden Harvest movies at that time. It was typical cheap kung fu film centred on rival martial arts schools, Japanese karate and Chnese taekwondo girl students to be more specific. Film was Spiced up with lots of cuties in tracksuits (and sometimes less), it is an uneasy mix of titillation and kung fu, its one really memorable moment being the sudden appearance at the end of the Japanese villainess in black belt and pink costume to take on Tien. 
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Hong Kong release (1974)
Standard Mandarin Romanization Title: 
Nu:3 Zi3 Tai2 Quan2 Qun2 Ying1 Hui3 
Official English Title: 
The Dragon Tamers 
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