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17 Nov 2023
yukari oshima & kara wai (that's money) AI restored from a bad source
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It takes me back 34 years, with a certain nostalgia. At that time there was no net. To see an Asian film there were only 2 solutions: see it in the cinema, or have the chance to rent the film on video. It so happened that from a very young age I had acquired the trust of a dozen Asian video stores in Paris. They all knew I was looking for movies with "female action heroine". I had almost live Hong Kong films from the 80s and 90s, because they had the videos very soon after they were shown in theaters. I was shocked to discover Sharon Young, Carol Wai, Mischiko Nishiwaki, Mona Lee, Joyce Godenzi, Cynhtia Khan and Oshima Yukari (who we see here when she is young). I will remember for the rest of my life the day when; The icing on the cake was that I came back the same day with no less than 13 videos to watch (they left them for 8 - 10 days). Among these films: "Lethal Lady", "She ShootsStraight", "Iron Angels II", "Killer Angels", "Shanghai, Shanghai", "Angel Terminators" and other masterpieces of the genre. This despite the fact that they had already fed me the months before with films like Iron Angels, Angel Terminators, The Outlaws, Lady Reporter, In The Line of Duty, Inspector War Skirts and other films such as Licence to Steal or Widow Warriors. Not only in each of the films were excellent fighting actresses. But in addition, the female roles were multiplied by the presence of other women who played the roles of the other female vigilantes, and of the "villain(s)". I think it's a shame that we didn't know what it was known at the time! But it's crazy how tastes converge in our shared passion
Is the film called: "That's Money" or "That's Maoney" as you wrote it?