Overview: Made at the height of her fame following roles in Hapkido, Lady Whirlwind, Enter the Dragon and When Taekwondo Strikes, Broken Oath is one of Angela Mao’s very best films - and boasts action choreography orchestrated by Hsia Hsu (Drunken Master) and Yuen Woo-ping, one of the most respected stunt coordinators in both Hong Kong (The Magnificent Butcher) and Hollywood (The Matrix).

Lotus never had a chance. Her mother seethed with anger at being unjustly imprisoned for turning her attempted rapist into a cyclops. Mother repeatedly asked her good friend and fellow prisoner, Pickpocket, to urge Lotus to take revenge for her as an adult.

Lotus is given to a monastery and grows up there, but twenty years of peace and love make no impression on Lotus, who skips classes to practice pole and sword skills. Joining forces with Pickpocket and Big Rat, Lotus soon gets her chance at revenge!

Eureka Classics is proud to present the film on Blu-ray for the first time anywhere in the world from a brand new 2K restoration.

Blu-ray Verdict: Angela Mao (Bruce Lee’s sister in Enter the Dragon) plays a twenty year-old martial warrior who’s kicked out of her Buddhist monastery due to her wanton bloodlust, only to find herself on a quest to avenge her parents’ murders; in which she wields her bo staff with impunity and throws poisonous scorpions like ninja stars!

There’s solid fight choreography throughout, but the final 30 minutes truly reach an orgiastic crescendo of violence, featuring a young Sammo Hung and Han Ying-chieh as a villain who sports steel toe shoes and who breathes fire! In other words: if you’re a martial arts movie fan, you live for this shit!

When Mao is onscreen, stealthily placing scorpions on her enemies or unleashing Yuen Woo-ping-choreographed strikes, Broken Oath is a mean lean kung-fu blast. When the plot detours to the adventures of boring sidekick guy or sidelines Mao with debilitating poison, Broken Oath becomes blander, sluggish, and less fun.

That said, and with regard the aforementioned finale’s fight-crazy gauntlet, it most definitely culminates the movie on a high note though and with the score also being rather magnificent throughout, well, I simply cannot recommend this film highly enough.

Special Features:
1080p HD presentation on Blu-ray of the uncut theatrical version from a brand new 2K restoration
Original Mandarin audio and optional English dub tracks (original mono presentations)
Optional English subtitles, newly translated for this release
Brand new audio commentary by East Asian film expert Frank Djeng (NY Asian Film Festival)
Brand new audio commentary by action cinema experts Mike Leeder and Arne Venema
Brand new interview with actor Bruce Leung (The Dragon Lives Again)
Patrick Macias on Lady Snowblood – new appreciation by film writer Patrick Macias
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