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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 More |
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