• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

SEENIT

TV, Film, Broadband, Pay-TV, Games, Computing & Tech | News, Comment & Reviews

  • NEWS
  • UPCOMING BLU-RAYS
  • ADVERTISE

Eureka to release double bill of Angela Mao films

June 10, 2022 - Staff@seenituk

An action-packed double bill starring ‘Queen of Kung-fu’ Angela Mao is heading to Blu-ray and DVD on August 22nd as part of the Eureka Classics range.

Pre-order from Amazon.co.uk*
*Affiliate Link. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.

Angela Mao and director Huang Feng (The Shaolin Plot) produced a popular series of top tier kung-fu classics including Deadly China Doll, When Taekwondo Strikes, Hapkido and Lady Whirlwind – the last two of which are included in this new release; Angela Mao: Hapkido & Lady Whirlwind.

In Hapkido (aka. Lady Kung Fu in the West), a group of martial artists (Mao, Sammo Hung, and Carter Wong) start their own school to teach the Korean martial art, Hapkido, but a rival Japanese academy attempts to crush them – deeming Hapkido inferior to their Japanese fighting style. 

Similar to the plot of Bruce Lee’s Fist of Fury (a canny decision by the filmmakers, capitalising on Mao often being referred to as a “female Bruce Lee” ), Hapkido was a huge hit in the West, even briefly beating Lee’s Enter the Dragon at the North American box office.

Perhaps her most iconic film, Lady Whirlwind stars Mao as a deadly fighter out for revenge on the man who wronged her sister (Chang Yi). 

After tracking the man down, she finds he is on his own vengeful path against a gang of Japanese thugs and agrees to help keep him alive – as long as she gets to take her revenge when it’s all over!

Both films are being presented from brand new 2K restorations. 

Share this:

  • Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)
  • Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)

Tagged With: Blu-rays and DVD

RECENT ARTICLES

Sergio Corbucci’s Django is getting a new 4K Blu-ray release 

Saving Private Ryan is returning to UK cinemas to mark 25th anniversary

Shogun – Disney+ confirms UK and Ireland launch date

Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer tops this week’s film chart with 113,000 disc and digital sales 

UPCOMING BLU-RAY RELEASES

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny comes to Blu-ray in December

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season two comes to Blu-ray next month 

Colourised version of The Daleks now available to pre-order on Blu-ray

Eureka to release the spaghetti western-inspired Samurai Wolf and Samurai Wolf II on Blu-ray 

POPULAR

BBC Sounds gains multi-room listening on Echo and other Alexa powered speakers

Paramount+ UK is now available on Hisense Vidaa Smart TVs

UK’s free broadcasters team up to create Freely – a new streaming TV service 

Openreach calls time on new analogue copper phone line installs 

ADVERTISE ON SEENIT

We’re pleased to offer a number of advertising opportunities to high quality brands including sponsored content, competitions and advertising placements.

Please contact us for details.

 

TOPICS

Audio Blu-rays and DVD Cinema Gaming Guides Sport Streaming Telecoms Television

Copyright © 2023 · All Rights Reserved · Contact Us · Copyright · Terms of Use · Privacy Policy