Overview: A culture-clash comedy - with kung fu! A thoroughly Americanized young woman (Kara Hui, The 8 Diagram Pole Fighter) returns to Hong Kong to visit the martial arts school founded by her father and shakes it up with some trendy new ideas. But not everyone is keen on her innovations, a lesson she’ll have to learn the hard way.

Directed by and starring the great Lau Kar-leung (The Shadow Boxing), The Lady is the Boss blends fun and fighting as only he could - and those fights are some of the very best of his illustrious career. 88 Films are delighted to present the UK Blu-ray premier of an action classic.

Blu-ray Verdict: In truth, this film is far from essential but still manages to be a LOT of fun! Shaw brothers try to move with the times here which doesn’t completely work but it still manages to have some kind of clunky charm working for it. It all comes down to Kara Hui bringing all the energy as the new boss for a C-rate material arts school.

Endlessly shouting things like Let’s go! like she is in Street Fighter 2 and the aggressive early 80’s outfits add to the fairly basic let’s save the school storyline. Which at some point leads to clunky fight scenes which are admittedly filled in by some very inspired, and yet still missing something moments of pure 88 Films delight (oh, and the bike fight really brings around a very solid ending fight scene, trust me!)

The comedy in this is solid also since it is more about the misfit students interacting with their new boss then being outright creeps like they are in tons of other HK action comedies. They get that out of their system with a funny shadow scene, then Hui just takes the guys on a bender, pretty much after styling them up and then teaching the woman at the bad guy’s club how to defend themselves against the lecherous clientele!

Special Features:
Stills Gallery
Limited Edition O-ring
Trailer
2.0 DTS-HD MA Cantonese Soundtrack with newly translated English Subtitles
High Definition (1080p) Presentation in 2.35:1 Aspect Ratio
Limited Edition Set of 4 collectors art cards