Attack Of The Kung Fu Girls 1973 Written and directed by Lo Wei. A Chinese film from Golden Harvest. Jackie Chan has a small part playing a Japanese bully.
Cheng Pei-pei pretends to be the long lost sister of a local army Captain so she can find out where the leader of the revolutionaries has been imprisoned. The revolutionaries want to stop Japan from influencing China in their favor. The Chinese President Yuan Shih Ka has let the Japanese become very influential in capital politics as well as on a local level. Because the Emperor likes the Japanese the locals can't say much against them. The revolutionaries spend the movie planning actions and mostly failing and dying.
There's a fair bit of action and plenty of dead guys to haul out of the movie. Jackie plays a Japanese guy who causes trouble in a Chinese restaurant. Cheng Pei-Pei beats him and his friends pretty well. They complain to the local Japanese Consul and that gets to the Army leaders. Cheng is told to apologize but gets out trouble when she claims to be the sister of Army Captain Lei. He takes her into his home along with her two friends, an older woman and a young boy. Both are also deep in the revolution, things don't go so well for them either.
The Japanese Consul is played by Jô Shishido, some might remember him as the gangster in Seijun Suzuki's Branded To Kill or the Mighty Joe films on MST3K.
It's an ultimately sad story about some revolutionists what come to a poor end. I was mostly interested in seeing it because it was one of the handful of Jackie Chan films I hadn't seen before. I downloaded it from RareLust, there's a really crappy copy on YouTube I wouldn't want to watch. There's a pricey DVD on Amazon that pairs this movie with Whiplash. I enjoyed the film and would watch it again sometime.
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