| Broken Oath | |||||||||||
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| Director: | Jeong Chang-hwa | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Raymond Chow | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Angela Mao, Chan Wai-Man, Dean Shek, Sammo Hung | ||||||||||
| Music: | Joseph Koo | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Wang Yung-lung | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | Golden Harvest | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 98 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
| Language: | Mandarin | ||||||||||
Broken Oath is a 1977 Hong Kong Mandarin-language kung fu film directed by Jeong Chang-hwa, a South Korean director. The film was produced by Golden Harvest. It is an unofficial remake of the 1973 film Lady Snowblood, itself an adaptation of the manga series of the same name by Kazuo Koike and Kazuo Kamimura.[1]
A woman lies dying in a women's prison after giving birth and recounts to a pickpocket how she ended up there after her husband was murdered by thugs, one of whom also raped her. The pickpocket agrees to raise her daughter to seek revenge, but in hopes of breaking the cycle of violence she hands the infant girl over to a Shaolin monastery for women. 'Pure Lotus' Liu (Angela Mao) grows up to be a troubled young woman who skips out on Buddhist lessons, but excels at kung fu. She's kicked out after killing several thugs and rejoins the pickpocket, where she discovers the truth about her parents. Using her kung fu and deadly scorpions, Lotus begins a systematic hunt for each of the men who assaulted her family and ends up joining forces with government agents to uproot rebels, two of whom are her targets.[2] [3]
This is a partial list of cast.[4]
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