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Princess madam (1989)


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Wow  this film was bad ass, first time watching this Props to @NoKUNGFUforYU , question fellas? does this fit in -the inline of the duty series or is it separate?

 any more sequels after this? 

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NoKUNGFUforYU

You would probably like Angel Enforcers. Most of these girls with guns are one offs, even though they seem to play the same character.

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Most of these movies are just carbon-copies of each other.

But if you like that carbon copy... they're pretty interesting!

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I know this movie by heart  "Princess Madam" and I liked it very much. By the way I love these girls with guns movies. 😄

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Haven’t seen this since the early 90s so was pleasantly surprised that I liked it as much as I did on my second viewing.This Godfrey Ho movie(which is one complete one and not spliced with another)is well paced with some great fight scenes and shoot outs,the only down side is there are too many sub plots to contend with but well worth checking out👍👍👍

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On 10/18/2020 at 3:55 AM, sym8 said:

Haven’t seen this since the early 90s so was pleasantly surprised that I liked it as much as I did on my second viewing.This Godfrey Ho movie(which is one complete one and not spliced with another)is well paced with some great fight scenes and shoot outs,the only down side is there are too many sub plots to contend with but well worth checking out👍👍👍

If you liked Princess Madam be sure to check out Lethal Panther by Godfrey Ho

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Princess Madam (Hong Kong, 1989: Godfrey Ho) - A woman decides to testify against her former boss, who used to be a crime boss but has now gone straight. He immediately tries to kill her, even sending an army of motorcycle gang of assassins after her and her police escorts, including Moon Lee and Sharon Yeung Pan Pan. So, while the lady is in the safe house, Moon Lee and Sharon Yeung have their own problems and lives to deal with. Moon Lee's husband has a one-night stand with Michiko Nishiwaki because she's always away for work, but Michiko has some evil designs on the couple. Sharon Yeung's father, played by the late Kenneth Tsang, is a former cop and was on the take with said former crime boss. When she finds out this fact, the story takes a surprisingly dark turn...

By the end of the 1980s, it seems Godfrey Ho had stopped with the Cut n' Paste films and was trying to make "real" movies, starting with a number of GWG films, like this and Angel Enforcers. Although none of them are considered classics, they have their moments. This one has a lot of solid fight action and Michiko at her sexiest. Some people think that the Michiko subplot was taken from another film (which happened to also star Moon and Sharon), since it does feel a little divorced from the witness protection plot. It didn't like feel like a separate movie to me; it just felt like a strange writing decision to spend the second act of the movie on a subplot involving a secondary villain. Has anything ever been confirmed?

The action is good. The finale eschews the fisticuffs in favor of going the full of John Woo, thus emphasizing the "guns" of the Girls with Guns moniker. Ironically, despite the name of the sub-genre, fans tend to prefer the fighting over the gunplay in these films, But occasionally, it's good to see a GWG film with some strong gunplay and I enjoyed watching Sharon Yeung doing impossible gun stunts. Add that to some crazy twists at the end, and you have a decent way to spend 90 minutes. 

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On 6/22/2019 at 1:10 PM, sifu iron perm said:

Wow  this film was bad ass, first time watching this Props to @NoKUNGFUforYU , question fellas? does this fit in -the inline of the duty series or is it separate?

 any more sequels after this? 

There's a little plot detail that Sharon Yeung's cop character is an orphan in both films. You could see Princess Madam as being Angel Enforcers 2.

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Am I right in saying this has also gone by the title Iron Angels IV?

There's also a cut, dubbed version called Under Police Protection.

Very underrated girls 'n guns flick, I think. Yeung and Moon Lee make an excellent team.

 

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I'd heard of it and had it on my list, but somehow didn't realise or maybe I forgot that Godfrey Ho directed it. I think I'm going to bump it  up on the list.

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