This is one Chinese 80’s nostagia flick! Tsui Hark’s or known by the chinese speaking community as Xu Ke, directed this film still as a unknown. It was one of his earliest work and it remains to be a treat to watch even after so many years (released in 1986).

Chinese film goddess Ling Ching Hsia teams up with 80’s Hongkong starlet Cherie Chong, (from An Autumn’s Tale) and music siren Sally Yeh, to a story of slightly serious political observation injected with slap stick humour, fight scenes. and the chinese opera. The movie seeds a underlying message during the political intrigue in China after the first revolution. Ling Ching Hsia’s role is limited to her serious dispostion as the educated general’s daughter with a master plot expose illegal foreign borrowings during the first chinese revolution’s regime. The big screen is amply stolen by both Sally and Cherie whom are absolutely hilarious.

Try to listen up for the Beijing Ya - “Peking Duck” joke.