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Broken Oath (1977)

Broken Oath poster
Original title
破戒
Directed by
Jeong Chang-hwa
Genre
kung fu film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 38m
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 10 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman seeks revenge against the gangsters who killed her family. She trains in kung fu and pursues them one by one.

vengefulintensemartialbrutalmelodramaticdrivengritty

What happens

Broken Oath (Chinese: 破戒; pinyin: Po jie) 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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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