She Shoots Straight

She Shoots Straight (Chinese: 皇家女將, alternately Lethal Lady) is a 1990 Hong Kong action film directed by Corey Yuen and starring Sammo Hung and Joyce Godenzi.

She Shoots Straight
Directed byCorey Yuen
StarringSammo Hung
Joyce Godenzi
Release date
  • 1990 (1990)
Running time
94 min
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Story

She Shoots Straight turns on three plot axes. The first concerns the complications of a workplace romance and marriage between a dedicated policewoman “Mina Kao” (Joyce Godenzi) and her supervisor “Huang Tsung-pao” (Tony Leung). The second theme concerns opposition by the Huang family to the couple's impending union. Another policewoman, Mina's future sister-in-law “Chia Ling” (Carina Lau) is especially critical of apparent favoritism, and even makes a remark about her being Eurasian (this is not unique – a comparable epithet being made by Oshima's character to her guy opponent in “Close Escape”). The third axis provides a resolution as a gang of Vietnamese led by Yuan Hua (Yuen Wah) attempts a violent and risky robbery. After the gang is thwarted, a shootout ensues in which the police get the upper hand. Swearing revenge, Yuan Hua lays a counter-trap using Vietnamese jungle warfare devices. When Chia Ling – slighted over disciplinary action – impulsively investigates alone, she risks trouble. Mina and Tsung Po rescue her, but he is killed by a booby trap, dying in front of his sister and bride. United in their grief, the women must break the news to the Huang family at a celebration for their matriarch. This paves the way for a relatively straightforward vengeance sub-plot in which Mina and Chia Ling track the gang to a freighter in the harbor. In advance of reinforcements, they board the vessel to fight a life or death duel against gang members and crew wielding pistols, hatchets, knives or tools.

Cast
  • Joyce Godenzi - Inspector Mina Kao (as Joyce Mina Godenzi)
  • Carina Lau - Huang Chia-Ling
  • Sammo Hung - Supt. Officer Hung
  • Tony Leung Ka-Fai - Insp. Huang Tsung-Pao
  • Yuen Wah - Yuen Hua
  • Agnes Aurelio - Yuen Ying
  • Sarah Lee - Huang Chia-Lai
  • Teddy Yip - Uncle Huang Tsung-Po
  • Chung Fat - Hua
  • David Lau - Superintendent Lau
  • Stephen Chan - Arms dealer
  • Corey Yuen - Boatman
  • Cho Wing - Ship Thug
  • Anthony Carpio - Ship Thug
  • Hsu Hsia - Ship Thug
  • Michael Dinga - Kidnapping Leader
  • Jeff Falcon - Kidnapper
  • Mark Houghton - Kidnapper
  • Kam Kong Chow - Policeman
  • Bill Tung
  • Deon Lam
  • Wan Faat
  • Ken Goodman
  • Bruce Fontaine


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