WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Cinema: Wolf Devil Woman 0:00:03.040 --> 0:00:08.760 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:13.240 --> 0:00:15.080 Hey you welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:00:15.160 --> 0:00:18.360 This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick, and 0:00:18.400 --> 0:00:21.720 today we are going to be talking about the nineteen 0:00:21.920 --> 0:00:27.800 eighty two Taiwanese fantasy wusha film Wolf Devil Woman aka 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:33.159 Wolf and Queen aka Wolf and Ninja, which was distributed 0:00:34.280 --> 0:00:38.760 by IFD, a company that apparently really enjoyed giving movies 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:41.920 an English title with the word ninja in them. Whether 0:00:42.000 --> 0:00:43.720 or not the movie had anything to do with a 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:47.159 ninja usually, I think it didn't. A bit of just 0:00:47.320 --> 0:00:50.440 slot ninja in there. So Wolf and Ninja, I guess 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.720 that'll kind of work. But I'm gonna call it Wolf 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:56.640 Devil Woman because I think that is it combines all 0:00:56.720 --> 0:00:59.000 of the themes of the movie. You definitely have a woman, 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:02.240 she is kind of a woman, and there are major 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:04.600 themes of devils, even though the Wolf Woman is not 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:05.440 really a devil. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.360 I agree, I think this is the title to go with, So. 0:01:08.400 --> 0:01:10.319 Rob, I don't know if you have another contender in 0:01:10.400 --> 0:01:12.880 mind here, but I would say of all the films 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:16.199 we have ever covered on Weird House, I think Wolf 0:01:16.240 --> 0:01:20.039 Devil Woman is one of the most shrouded in mystery, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.080 and by that I just mean that we were able 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:27.679 to turn up very little objective information in English about 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.959 the production history and the people who made this movie, 0:01:30.959 --> 0:01:33.080 at least compared to most of the movies that we 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.160 watch on the show. But one thing that is for 0:01:36.280 --> 0:01:39.880 certain is we know it is. Of course, you know, 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.040 movies are all the work of many people. There's never 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.560 just one creator. But this movie, I think is well 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:51.600 known as a product of a singular genius by the writer, director, producer, 0:01:51.960 --> 0:01:58.280 and star Zang Ling, known in international releases as Pearl Chang. 0:01:59.000 --> 0:02:01.800 Yeah, Pearl Chang is the moniker that I believe IFD 0:02:02.000 --> 0:02:04.200 gave her just to like, you know, to spice it 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:06.760 up in the same way that suddenly it's a ninja movie. 0:02:07.800 --> 0:02:09.520 Call her Pearl Chang. It's just marketing. 0:02:09.800 --> 0:02:14.560 So Zangling or Pearl Chang wrote and directed four movies 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:18.440 around the early eighties, and now I have only seen 0:02:18.480 --> 0:02:20.440 one of them. I feel like I've got to see 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:26.400 the other three because she has such a weird, bizarre, 0:02:26.639 --> 0:02:31.720 pleasing and distinct style. This is a movie that Wolf 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:35.000 Devil Woman, I mean specifically, is a movie that has 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:38.320 had a reputation for many years as sort of one 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:41.560 of as like a low budget bad movie. People thought 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:43.920 of it as bad, and it was sort of circulated 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.200 on low quality VHS tapes and the kind of movie 0:02:47.200 --> 0:02:49.960 people would put on for a laugh. And it certainly 0:02:50.000 --> 0:02:52.800 does have elements that are very funny. But I also 0:02:52.800 --> 0:02:55.160 think this movie really does have a genius and a 0:02:55.200 --> 0:02:58.200 style of its own that should be appreciated. Like it's 0:02:58.240 --> 0:03:03.840 not just ironically good. This is an exercise in imagination, 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:06.040 and I really love it for what it is. 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:12.079 Oh yeah, it's rigally entertaining. It is intentionally comedic throughout. 0:03:12.480 --> 0:03:14.600 So it's not just a situation of like, oh look 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:16.640 look what they attempted to do, isn't it funny? Now, 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.840 Like they're attempting and succeeding multiple times with comedy. We 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:25.000 have a great central performance by Pearl Chang, who is 0:03:25.200 --> 0:03:32.560 at once funny, like broadly so, and yet never really 0:03:32.800 --> 0:03:35.920 never in a way that feels mean. Also, she gets 0:03:35.960 --> 0:03:38.400 she does get to be like the complete like stone 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:42.560 cold action woman who gets to kill multiple batties. She 0:03:42.600 --> 0:03:45.320 gets to do that a lot, so she gets to 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:49.160 pull those levers as well. But it's just such a 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.080 captivating performance, like if nothing, you know, if nothing else 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:56.320 in the film caught your eye, like she is like 0:03:56.360 --> 0:03:58.080 the shining star at the center of it. 0:03:58.240 --> 0:04:01.240 So like by the end of the movie, the Wolf 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.400 Woman that the main character played by Pearl Chang is 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:11.240 she's hardcore, Like she she's a stone cold warrior who 0:04:11.280 --> 0:04:14.440 is coming in to like be the coolest and defeat 0:04:14.440 --> 0:04:17.080 the enemy. But early on in the film there's all 0:04:17.320 --> 0:04:19.599 not just early on in fact, just different scenes in 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:23.480 the film. It's also like she gets to do pratfalls 0:04:23.640 --> 0:04:27.640 and does like slapstick sort of self deprecating klutz humor. 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.280 There's a scene where she accidentally eats too much chicken 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.280 and gets drunk and then beats up a bunch of 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:34.320 people in a restaurant. 0:04:35.120 --> 0:04:39.719 It's great. Yeah, you know, it's based on my observations 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:41.080 of the film and also going off some of the 0:04:41.120 --> 0:04:44.520 extras that we were looking at from Justin to Clue 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.720 from over at Golden Ninja Video. You know, it's like 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:51.839 you have you have a filmmaker and performer here who 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.840 is who seems to be to varying degrees, like like 0:04:54.920 --> 0:04:59.000 bucking the trends and the expectations of a female performer 0:04:59.120 --> 0:05:02.840 of a female role of a female filmmaker in a 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:06.599 you know, mostly male dominated world. So it's it's really 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.279 it's really inspiring to watch. 0:05:08.480 --> 0:05:12.160 She really embraces the wolfinness of the wolf character. But 0:05:12.560 --> 0:05:15.159 just in general, this movie is so it's not just 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:18.760 the main character. The movie is a wild beast howling 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:22.000 from the eighth dimension. It just has a lot going on, 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:25.040 and so much of it happens so fast and with 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:29.200 a little preparation for it. One thing that's been singled 0:05:29.200 --> 0:05:31.919 out about the style of this movie is like the 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.880 fast editing and the action scenes, but also just often 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:41.200 quite sudden and rapid plot developments. It's it's all really 0:05:41.240 --> 0:05:45.120 great stuff. It's absolutely nuts and it's awesome. One I 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:47.640 do want to issue one word of warning if you're 0:05:47.760 --> 0:05:49.880 gonna go watch this movie, because there's a kind of 0:05:49.960 --> 0:05:53.640 unusual thing in it. There were some rabbit hunting scenes 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.320 that occur on screen, and it is quite clear that 0:05:57.480 --> 0:06:01.360 they are unsimulated, so large warning. If that's going to 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.520 bother you, you might want to, I don't know, have 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.240 the fast forward button ready or just skip this one 0:06:07.640 --> 0:06:11.960 because there is unsimulated rabbit bow hunting on screen here. 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.680 Yeah. Yeah, an unfortunate reality of some of these older pictures, 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:20.760 and sometimes it's something like this that you can tell 0:06:20.960 --> 0:06:23.680 looking at it. Other times was often the case with 0:06:23.720 --> 0:06:28.000 a lot of horsemanship on camera. There is some you know, 0:06:28.279 --> 0:06:30.440 ultimately some animal cruelty going on there that may be 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.279 lost to the average viewer because we just don't necessarily 0:06:33.279 --> 0:06:38.120 recognize what goes in to performing stunts with horses, right, 0:06:38.360 --> 0:06:40.480 But anyway, not to forgive it. It's there and if 0:06:40.520 --> 0:06:42.479 you want to avoid it by all means, avoid it 0:06:42.880 --> 0:06:46.599 now it's worth pointing out. This is our third Taiwanese film. 0:06:46.640 --> 0:06:51.640 I believe we previously discussed Thrilling Bloody Sword and Child 0:06:51.720 --> 0:06:54.440 of Peach. Both of those are very weird movies. I 0:06:54.440 --> 0:06:59.839 would say Thrilling Bloody Sword is more unrelenting psychedelic wusha 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:04.400 and Child of Peach is more intentionally goofy. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:07.159 Yeah, And it's. 0:07:06.960 --> 0:07:09.000 Interesting to try and sort of place where Wolf Devil 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:11.760 Woman is between those two, because it's not nearly as 0:07:11.760 --> 0:07:15.480 psychedelics is Throwing Bloody Sword, but it has its moments, 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:18.800 and on the other hand, it does have plenty of 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.720 broad comedic moments as well, but certainly not to maybe 0:07:21.720 --> 0:07:24.200 the fantastic extremes of Child of Peach. 0:07:24.840 --> 0:07:28.640 The commentary track on the release of this movie that 0:07:28.680 --> 0:07:32.760 we watched the Golden Ninja release has some sort of 0:07:32.840 --> 0:07:37.000 general thoughts on it about differences you often see between 0:07:38.080 --> 0:07:40.720 Taiwanese woosh of films and those produced in the Hong 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:44.960 Kong film industry, and some of the things that this 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:47.160 is by justin the clue of Golden Ninja video, and 0:07:47.960 --> 0:07:51.720 he says several things are like, first of all, Taiwanese 0:07:51.800 --> 0:07:54.480 movies of this sort tended to be lower budgets, they 0:07:54.480 --> 0:07:57.800 would be made faster and cheaper than Hong Kong films, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:00.640 but also they tended to kind of make up for 0:08:00.680 --> 0:08:04.520 that by being wackier and more imaginative and having more 0:08:04.640 --> 0:08:08.960 unusual fantasy elements, often more gore. You definitely see that 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:11.280 here in addition to what we already mentioned. There are 0:08:11.320 --> 0:08:16.440 some unrealistic looking but quite interesting gore effects and just 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:21.560 more of a kind of wide ranging, fast moving, kind 0:08:21.560 --> 0:08:23.360 of fast and loose feel to them. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.280 Yeah, I remember one thing that he mentioned in some 0:08:26.320 --> 0:08:28.119 of the exers for Thrilling Bloody Sword is that he's 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:30.760 kind of like the underdog status of Taiwanese cinema of 0:08:30.800 --> 0:08:33.199 the time period where yeah, they really felt like they 0:08:33.240 --> 0:08:35.720 had to do all these things. You know, Hong Kong 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:40.000 cinema had the advantage, but we Taiwanese cinema could be 0:08:40.040 --> 0:08:44.960 even more daring, daring and stunts, daring and plot elements, 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.640 the magic, the wackiness, what have you. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.200 I do really love a lot of the stunts in 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.280 this movie, and it is stuff that you will have 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.199 you will have seen in other movies of this type, 0:08:55.320 --> 0:08:59.000 Like there is the Wusha Star often has a kind 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:02.600 of flying typeability or a weightlessness that they were able 0:09:02.640 --> 0:09:05.400 to manifest, so they can leap up thirty feet in 0:09:05.400 --> 0:09:08.520 the air or sort of zoom across the zoom across 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:11.959 the room without their feet touching the floor. So there's 0:09:11.960 --> 0:09:14.800 similar kinds of stunts to you would what you would 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.560 find in other movies of this type. But I like 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.360 the way they appear on screen here. Often, like when 0:09:19.400 --> 0:09:22.320 the wolf Devil woman leaps up in the air, like 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:24.880 you know, up into the treetops, it will be filmed 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:27.880 in a kind of slow motion that gives her this 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:28.880 this magical weight. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:32.040 Yeah. Absolutely, it has some of these these great woucha 0:09:32.160 --> 0:09:36.800 moments with the floating, the flying, the like strange physical 0:09:36.840 --> 0:09:40.800 interactions occurring by two flying characters nit air that sort 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:43.400 of thing, Yeah yeah, and then some just straight up 0:09:43.400 --> 0:09:45.160 moratal kombat fatalities. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.760 Yeah yeah. There's there's a lot of sorcery too. So, 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:51.760 like the bad guys in the movie have a habit 0:09:51.840 --> 0:09:55.120 of walking up to people and just blasting these huge, 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.560 billowing gusts of fog out of their sleeves that somehow 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:03.280 like either burn people or freeze them. 0:10:03.320 --> 0:10:06.440 There's the Lady Demon Minion who covers people with spiders 0:10:06.440 --> 0:10:09.720 and web yes, the Witch. Yeah, so there's plenty of 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:11.400 magic to go around. It's what we're saying. 0:10:11.760 --> 0:10:13.480 Okay, should we do the elevator pitch? 0:10:13.800 --> 0:10:14.360 Let's have it. 0:10:14.600 --> 0:10:18.120 A young woman is raised by wolves after her parents 0:10:18.120 --> 0:10:21.440 are murdered by the minions of a sparkly devil. The 0:10:21.480 --> 0:10:25.120 wolves happen to feed this young girl a plant root 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:27.560 that is a sort of one of a kind plant root, 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:30.000 a once in a thousand years root that gives her 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:34.280 amazing powers of weightless leaping and martial arts. And then 0:10:34.320 --> 0:10:37.200 when a pair of heroic adventurers meet the wolf woman, 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.480 they teach her to speak human language and live like 0:10:40.520 --> 0:10:43.559 a human at least sort of and they inadvertently open 0:10:43.640 --> 0:10:47.079 her mind to a bloody path of revenge against the demon. 0:10:48.960 --> 0:10:51.480 All right, Joe, what's your what's your tagline for this one? 0:10:51.840 --> 0:10:56.040 Who are you gonna call white gensing? Okay, gen sing root? 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.640 Yeah, white gensing has a major role in this picture, 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:03.120 despite the fact that, as far as I can understand, 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:07.600 like white gensing is just a variety of gensying that 0:11:07.840 --> 0:11:10.920 you encounter and you can buy it. So I don't 0:11:10.960 --> 0:11:14.680 know if this was ultimately something where the actual term 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.640 used in the Mandarin it's referring to some sort of 0:11:17.679 --> 0:11:21.040 mythical substance, because there are plenty of things like that, 0:11:21.080 --> 0:11:23.160 you know that we've discussed in the Unstuffed to Blow 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:24.839 of your Mind before. You know, some sort of mythical 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.040 substance that grows on a sacred mountain and has to 0:11:27.040 --> 0:11:31.240 be harvested. So maybe it was something like that somehow, 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.720 you know, linked to the source material, and it's just 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:38.160 been replaced in dubs and subtitles as white genzing. 0:11:38.480 --> 0:11:40.439 Hmm. Yeah, I didn't know what to make of that. 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.360 All right. Normally we would we would hit you with 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:46.320 some trailer audio right now, but as far as I know, 0:11:46.480 --> 0:11:49.960 there is not a theatrical trailer available for this film, 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:53.640 either for its original market or uh, you know, for 0:11:53.720 --> 0:11:56.800 international markets. So instead, I thought we just might have 0:11:56.920 --> 0:12:01.080 just a quick audio sample of some of the audio 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.559 nuttiness of this film, because there are multiple times while 0:12:05.559 --> 0:12:06.960 I was watching it where I was just like man, 0:12:06.960 --> 0:12:09.040 even if you weren't watching this film, if you're just 0:12:09.160 --> 0:12:11.960 listening to it, it's just absolutely bonkers. 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:13.880 Maybe we can get some of the English dub of 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:15.280 the demon talking. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:18.000 Oh, yes, yes he is, he is fabulous. All right, 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:18.439 let's have. 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:30.440 It such a great here, it's become my Yeah, I 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.439 understand you came here to kill me, but it looks 0:12:33.440 --> 0:12:35.960 and things have change. 0:12:37.640 --> 0:12:41.360 All right now, if you want to watch Wolf Devil Woman. 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:45.000 Before we proceed, first of all, bear in mind it 0:12:45.040 --> 0:12:47.280 has all these different titles. If you're searching for it, 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:52.360 you might need a search for Wolf and Ninja. You'll 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:56.880 find Queen Wolf and Queen and so forth. You of course, 0:12:56.920 --> 0:12:59.760 also you can always you know, get the original like 0:12:59.840 --> 0:13:03.800 man title and you know, in the Mandarin characters and 0:13:03.840 --> 0:13:05.360 throw that into search and you might be able to 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:06.160 find it as well. 0:13:06.520 --> 0:13:08.680 But I think we should make clear that if you're 0:13:08.720 --> 0:13:11.560 like looking for versions of this on disc or on 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.400 the internet, and you can't find one where the picture 0:13:14.480 --> 0:13:16.760 is good. Yeah, that's just sort of what you're stuck 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.800 with apparently there as far as I'm aware, there is 0:13:20.040 --> 0:13:24.120 really no good looking version of this movie out there. Yeah. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.079 I mean, hopefully that'll change, because I believe that changed 0:13:27.080 --> 0:13:31.080 with Thrilling Bloody Sword. We had the version that came 0:13:31.080 --> 0:13:34.080 out that gold Ninja Video put out, and if memory 0:13:34.120 --> 0:13:39.200 serves correctly, some better source material for it, something that 0:13:39.200 --> 0:13:43.000 can maybe be remastered, has surfaced and we can look 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:47.199 forward to another even more magical release of Thrilling Bloody Swords. So, 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.319 you know, as films like this become popular, you never 0:13:49.360 --> 0:13:51.040 know what they're going to turn up. We have We've 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.000 discussed cases of this before, such as Santo in the 0:13:55.000 --> 0:13:57.920 Treasure of Dracula, where they thought that, you know, any 0:13:58.840 --> 0:14:01.200 any color print of the movie was just lost, and 0:14:01.200 --> 0:14:02.360 then they found it in a vault. 0:14:02.840 --> 0:14:05.080 I would really love to discover that in this case 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:08.800 because so, yeah, we both watched it on the disc 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:13.960 release by Golden Ninja Video, and that disc has two 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.640 different versions of the film, both of which have problems. 0:14:18.200 --> 0:14:21.680 One is one in the original aspect ratio, which is 0:14:21.720 --> 0:14:24.800 like a widescreen version of the movie that the picture 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:28.480 is really pretty poor, like the colors are kind of 0:14:28.520 --> 0:14:32.240 messed up, and it's not very sharp, and it has 0:14:32.400 --> 0:14:35.960 hard baked in Greek subtitles, which I don't know, maybe 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:38.560 that's your thing, but I guess they kind of pile 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.560 up if you're also watching it with English subtitles or 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.680 whatever subtitles on top of that. But maybe that's a 0:14:44.680 --> 0:14:48.120 good one to watch with a dub. Though in general, 0:14:48.200 --> 0:14:50.640 I can recommend the English dub on this movie, which 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:52.840 is quite fun, yes. 0:14:52.640 --> 0:14:54.280 And I think that's key. Like one of the things 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:56.960 about dubs is you want a dub that is at 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:00.120 least mostly accurate, and you want the dub to more 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.560 or less match the intended tone of the film, Like 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:04.560 if it's a serious film or it has kind of 0:15:04.600 --> 0:15:07.320 a serious tone, you don't want you don't want the 0:15:08.400 --> 0:15:11.640 dub to be making fun of the picture. You don't 0:15:11.680 --> 0:15:15.720 want the dub to be completely off kilter. And I 0:15:15.720 --> 0:15:19.120 feel like the dub is wacky and fun in a 0:15:19.120 --> 0:15:21.560 way that the movie is wacky and fun, and at 0:15:21.680 --> 0:15:24.640 least to my ear, it never came off as disrespectful. 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.160 But anyway, that is the wide screen version on the disc. 0:15:28.200 --> 0:15:31.280 There was also a full screen version, where from what 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:34.880 I can tell, the picture is sharper, so it's a 0:15:34.920 --> 0:15:37.840 little bit better looking, but it's badly cropped, so you're 0:15:37.840 --> 0:15:40.040 missing a lot of the original film. 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:43.320 That's the version I watched. I looked at the other one, 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.840 the wide screen, and I just felt like the picture 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.760 quality was overall two degraded for me to get into 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.040 it as much, so I decided to go with the 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.040 other though I will say it did probably make some 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.920 of the action sequences, especially those in the last quarter 0:15:57.960 --> 0:15:59.840 of the picture, a little more confusing. 0:16:00.120 --> 0:16:03.120 Sure, I think those are somewhat confusing no matter what 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:04.440 crop you're looking at. 0:16:04.680 --> 0:16:09.880 That's the thing, right, So yeah, that Golden Ninja video 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:14.120 release was titled Wolf Devil Director the Films of Pearl Chang. 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.720 It was a two disc thing. It's currently out of print, 0:16:18.240 --> 0:16:21.760 but hey, you can go to gold Ninja Video dot com. 0:16:22.200 --> 0:16:24.920 You sign up for their newsletter, maybe hassle them a 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.640 little bit. Who knows, they might put it out again. 0:16:26.680 --> 0:16:28.320 I know they've re released things in the past. 0:16:28.640 --> 0:16:32.239 I would get a copy if they put it out again. Yeah, 0:16:32.320 --> 0:16:34.440 and by the way, we should say that that release 0:16:34.960 --> 0:16:37.440 not only has Wolf Devil Woman that one is sort 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:40.240 of the main main event, but it also has some 0:16:40.400 --> 0:16:45.400 of Zangling or Pearl Chang's other films in uh. I 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:47.600 think it In fact, I wonder does it have all 0:16:47.680 --> 0:16:49.720 three of the ones that she wrote and directed. I 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:53.080 believe it does have matching escort, and I think it 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.480 does have the one about the Flower. 0:16:56.320 --> 0:16:57.720 I think you're right. I don't have It's in the 0:16:57.840 --> 0:16:59.360 other room, so I can't pick it up and look 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.280 at it right now, Okay, but it's definitely worth picking 0:17:03.320 --> 0:17:06.560 up if you're interested in these films. Again, we rented 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:09.080 it from Video Drum here in Atlanta, as we often do. 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.640 So if you are local to Atlanta or visiting Atlanta 0:17:12.720 --> 0:17:15.040 with your Blu Ray Player, you can go over to 0:17:15.119 --> 0:17:18.720 Video Drome and rent it for yourself and just a 0:17:18.800 --> 0:17:22.800 quick shout out here. 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It's currently in 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:58.440 the kickstarter phase, so yeah, jump in and help fund 0:17:58.440 --> 0:18:00.000 it if that interest you. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.560 All right, would you like to talk about the connections 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:11.520 in this movie. 0:18:12.080 --> 0:18:14.240 Yeah, we're gonna get into it as much as we can. 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:17.800 This one is definitely a film with the least amount 0:18:17.800 --> 0:18:21.719 of information on the available databases, so we're talking you know, 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:26.600 the movie database IMDb, also the Hong Kong Movie Database, 0:18:26.640 --> 0:18:31.840 which often provides additional insight into films from Hong Kong, 0:18:31.880 --> 0:18:36.199 Taiwanese and mainland Chinese cinema. But in this case, really 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:38.520 not so much. Like we said, this is one of 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:41.800 the more mysterious films that we've looked at. But we're 0:18:41.840 --> 0:18:44.840 gonna walk you through what we know. So starting at 0:18:44.880 --> 0:18:48.439 the top, Yeah, it's Pearl Chang Ling or Pearl Chang 0:18:49.280 --> 0:18:52.720 and so forth, the director, the the writer, the producer, 0:18:53.000 --> 0:18:56.000 the star and also she did the theme song vocals. 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:59.560 Oh okay, Yeah, she sang the theme song to some 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.879 other pros that she was involved in before she was 0:19:01.920 --> 0:19:03.399 directing her own films as well. 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.760 Yeah, she I mean, she is just a tour de 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:10.000 force here. So she was born in nineteen fifty five. 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:12.840 According to the Hong Kong Movie Database, she was active 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:16.640 from seventy two through eighty three, acting in twenty four films, 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:20.560 writing for directing three. And I want to just add 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.280 an asterisk there because I know that there are some 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.520 films that it's thought that she did direct, but another 0:19:27.160 --> 0:19:30.639 director that may be just a pseudonym is attributed. And 0:19:30.680 --> 0:19:32.679 again we don't have a lot of information to go 0:19:32.760 --> 0:19:33.880 on in the databases here. 0:19:34.160 --> 0:19:36.119 From what I was reading and what was in the 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:40.040 documentary on the disc, it seems that it is acknowledged 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:42.840 that she directed four films and one of them has 0:19:42.880 --> 0:19:45.120 a director's credit that is a pseudonym for her. 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:50.399 Okay, well, the three that are definitely her there's A 0:19:50.520 --> 0:19:53.720 Romantic Night in eighty one, matching Escort in eighty two 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:58.480 and Wolf Devil Woman in eighty two as well. So 0:19:58.720 --> 0:20:01.280 this picture would seem to appe pretty late in her 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:04.240 film career, followed only by a trio of nineteen eighty 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:07.639 three films in which she acted the three famous constables, 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:10.840 General Invincible, which she also wrote, and is that the 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:12.760 one that she also may have. 0:20:12.760 --> 0:20:15.360 Directed, possibly, I'm not sure. 0:20:15.480 --> 0:20:17.080 And then Fantasy Mission Force. 0:20:17.480 --> 0:20:20.040 She didn't direct that one. That is a movie that 0:20:20.200 --> 0:20:22.760 she started in along with Jackie Chan. 0:20:23.040 --> 0:20:27.199 That's right, yes, Now. IMDb also lists her as an 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.399 uncredited actor in nineteen ninety one's Thunder Ninja Kids The 0:20:30.480 --> 0:20:33.280 Hunt for the Devil Boxer, but this is not reflected 0:20:33.400 --> 0:20:35.919 on Hong Kong Movie Database, and I don't think it 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.199 was mentioned on the extras for the gold Ninja release, 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:41.879 so I'm tempted to dismiss this one. 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:46.200 Yeah, but once again, in the case of Wolf Devil Woman, 0:20:46.280 --> 0:20:49.760 we know that she wrote it, produced it, directed it, 0:20:49.920 --> 0:20:52.240 and starred in it in multiple roles. 0:20:52.560 --> 0:20:55.560 Yes, yeah, I believe she plays her own mother, as 0:20:55.560 --> 0:20:56.160 we'll discuss. 0:20:56.359 --> 0:20:59.320 Yeah, Rob, I don't know if you've got a chance 0:20:59.359 --> 0:21:01.719 to watch it, but is a short documentary I think 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:04.000 it's about ten minutes long on the Golden Ninja release 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.080 that focuses on the life and work of Zang Ling 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:12.800 or Pearl Chang what we were able to know about her. 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:16.000 I did watch this, Oh, okay's quite good. So, yeah, 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.160 this is good. So some of the things that they 0:21:19.200 --> 0:21:21.160 talk about in there is that she starred in over 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:25.520 twenty movies. According to their research, she wrote and directed 0:21:25.560 --> 0:21:29.720 four feature films, not three. That there really is. I 0:21:29.760 --> 0:21:33.840 think it's not just a lack of available materials in English. 0:21:34.359 --> 0:21:36.520 This made it sound more like that there really just 0:21:36.680 --> 0:21:39.240 is not a whole lot that is publicly known about her. 0:21:40.280 --> 0:21:42.320 Yeah, it sounds like she was She's thought to have 0:21:42.359 --> 0:21:46.880 ultimately been kind of a private person anyway, And yeah, 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:50.160 that certainly factors into the lack of information here. 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:53.159 Once again, the name Pearl Chang is the name is 0:21:53.200 --> 0:21:57.280 like her work name that appeared on international releases distributed 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:02.200 by IFD. IFD once again they like specialize in releasing 0:22:02.240 --> 0:22:05.600