The Angel Strikes Again

May 29, 1968

1h 36m

★ 4.0

Overview

Lily Ho, a secret agent out to thwart the sale of a powerful explosive to the wrong people. It’s a female, Chinese James bond.

Genres

Action

Production Companies

Shaw Brothers

The Angel Strikes Again Trailers

Cast

Ai Si (Agent 009)

Lily Ho

Deng Lei

Tang Ching

Xiang Xiang (Agent 525)/ Bomb Gang Boss

Shen Yi

Doctor

Lo Wei

Tan, the Hercules

Chao Hsiung

Foxy Helen

Gloria Wang Siao-Ing

Paul (Agent 309)

Chiang Kuang-Chao

Detective Mai

Tien Shun

Mr Chen

Fang Mian

Bomb Gang's thug

Fan Mei-Sheng

Bomb Gang's thug

Wu Ma

Bomb Gang's thug

Liu Gang

Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches effortlessly between charming gentility and agile ferocity, and Lau personifies her character's duality with a balance of grace and vigour. Chang Cheh, on the verge of fostering seismic changes in cinema with his martial-arts machismo, pens a script that captures the spirit of changing Chinese womanhood, underscored by a conflict between Black Butterfly and her father, a veteran detective.

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