East Asian Cinema Retrospective: A List Women in B Movies

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In this section, genre films, featuring action heroines from Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan during the 1960s and 1970s, will be screened. These female action films will offer an incredibly refreshing and enjoyable experience for those interested in the representation of women in East Asian genre films during that time.

 
 
Film List (6)
 
Fighting Lions
 Director : KIM Muk
 Korea | 1962 | 117' | 35mm | b&w | Drama

Synopsis A South Korean commando, leaded by a woman commander, penetrates into Cheolwon, an area occupied by North Korean army. With the help from Sook-kyoung, the soldiers blow up a powder magazine, block the enemy's suppl ..

Girls from Eight Provinces
 Director : PYEON Keo-young
 Korea | 1970 | 77' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis A taxi driver, Ji-hi, saves a girl who has almost killed herself by taking poison after being raped by gangsters. Ji-hi also saves Mi-yeon who wonders on the street after being deserted by her lover. On a so-and-so ..

Madame Jang from Hong Kong
 Director : SHIN Kyeong-gyun
 Korea | 1970 | 86' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis Japanese military policeman Jang Jun-cheol kills Mi-ryeong's father and her beloved husband. For revenge, she returns from Hong Kong in 20 years. Just then, detective Yeong-gu has been chasing Jang Jun-cheol who is ..

Special Investigation Bureau: KIM So-san, the Kisaeng
 Director : SEOL Tae-ho
 Korea | 1973 | 97' | 35mm | color | Drama

Synopsis KIM So-san is a hostess who is in fact a secret agent working for the communist party in South Korea. Prosecutor OH Je-do of Special Investigation Bureau aims at rounding up the communists party by arresting So-san ..

Stray Cat Rock: Female Boss
 Director : HASEBE Yasuharu
 Japan | 1970 | 80' | HD | color | Drama

Synopsis Mei, leader of an all-girl biker gang, inadvertently gets involved with a yakuza group's plot to rig boxing matches because of her boyfriend and a rival gang. When the yakuza tortures and kills some of her members, ..

Lady General Hua Mulan
 Director : YUEH Feng
 Hong Kong | 1963 | 100' | Digi-beta | color | Drama

Synopsis This is the story about China’s Joan of Arc, lady general Hua Mulan. In a tiny Hunen village, there lives the happy Hua family. Father Hua Hu, a veteran of many wars, is now retired. When a frontier tribe invades ..