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The Lady is the Boss
CHINA · 1983

The Lady is the Boss

Kar-leung Lau
martial arts generational conflict tradition vs modernization school competition female empowerment
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Synopsis

Wong Hsia Yuan is an old-fashioned martial arts master who's so behind the times that he'd rather his school be destroyed than change its ways. He may get his wish, thanks to the young, beautiful, intelligent Chan Mei Ling, who arrives from the states to open a new branch of the school. Armed with an unfamiliar, modern way of thinking, Mei Ling goes about recruiting new students in strange, and so

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