WEBVTT - Weirdhouse Rewind: Wolf Devil Woman 0:00:04.480 --> 0:00:07.880 Hey, welcome to Weird House Cinema. Rewind. This is Rob 0:00:07.960 --> 0:00:10.120 Lamb and since we're a little bit on the topic 0:00:10.160 --> 0:00:13.160 of where Wolves of late, we are going to rerun 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.079 our episode from four five, twenty twenty four. This is 0:00:16.079 --> 0:00:19.960 going to be Wolf Devil Woman from nineteen eighty two, 0:00:20.200 --> 0:00:25.600 a Taiwanese fantasy film starring and directed by the amazing 0:00:25.720 --> 0:00:27.680 Pearl Chang. Let's jump right in. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:37.080 Welcome to Stuff to Blow your Mind, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:41.560 --> 0:00:43.400 Hey you, welcome to Weird House Cinema. 0:00:43.440 --> 0:00:46.640 This is Rob Lamb and this is Joe McCormick. And 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:50.040 today we are going to be talking about the nineteen 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:56.000 eighty two Taiwanese fantasy wusha film Wolf Devil Woman aka 0:00:56.360 --> 0:01:01.480 Wolf and Queen aka Wolf and Ninja, which was distributed 0:01:02.600 --> 0:01:07.080 by IFD, a company that apparently really enjoyed giving movies 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:10.199 an English title with the word ninja in them. Whether 0:01:10.319 --> 0:01:12.040 or not the movie had anything to do with a 0:01:12.120 --> 0:01:14.240 ninja usually I think it didn't. 0:01:14.840 --> 0:01:15.520 A bit of just. 0:01:15.640 --> 0:01:18.759 Slot ninja in there, So Wolf and Ninja, I guess 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.040 that'll kind of work. But I'm gonna call it Wolf 0:01:21.080 --> 0:01:25.000 Devil Woman because I think that is it combines all 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.320 of the themes of the movie. You definitely have a woman, 0:01:27.480 --> 0:01:29.600 she is kind of a wolf woman, and there are 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.800 major themes of devils, even though the wolf woman is 0:01:32.840 --> 0:01:33.760 not really a devil. 0:01:34.240 --> 0:01:36.039 I agree, I think this is the title to go with. 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:38.520 So Rob, I don't know if you have another contender 0:01:38.560 --> 0:01:40.679 in mind here, but I would say of all the 0:01:40.760 --> 0:01:44.120 films we have ever covered on Weird House, I think 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.360 Wolf Devil Woman is one of the most shrouded in mystery. 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:51.400 And by that I just mean that we were able 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:56.000 to turn up very little objective information in English about 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.240 the production history and the people who made this movie, 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:01.400 at least compared to most of the movies that we 0:02:01.440 --> 0:02:04.440 watch on the show. But one thing that is for 0:02:04.560 --> 0:02:08.200 certain is we know it is of course, you know, 0:02:08.280 --> 0:02:10.320 movies are all the work of many people. There's never 0:02:10.440 --> 0:02:13.880 just one creator. But this movie, I think is well 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:19.919 known as a product of a singular genius by the writer, director, producer, 0:02:20.280 --> 0:02:26.600 and star Zang Ling, known in international releases as Pearl Chang. 0:02:27.320 --> 0:02:30.080 Yeah, Pearl Chang is the moniker that I believe IFD 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.480 gave her just to like, you know, to spice it 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:35.079 up in the same way that suddenly it's a ninja movie. 0:02:35.840 --> 0:02:38.880 Call her Pearl Chang. It's just marketing, so zang Ling 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:43.920 or Pearl Chang wrote and directed four movies around the 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:47.280 early eighties, and now I have only seen one of them. 0:02:47.280 --> 0:02:49.440 I feel like I've got to see the other three 0:02:49.520 --> 0:02:56.720 because she has such a weird, bizarre, pleasing and distinct style. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:03:01.640 This is a movie that will devil woman. I mean specifically, 0:03:02.080 --> 0:03:04.760 is a movie that has had a reputation for many 0:03:04.800 --> 0:03:07.800 years as sort of one of as like a low 0:03:07.840 --> 0:03:10.920 budget bad movie. People thought of it as bad, and 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:14.720 it was sort of circulated on low quality VHS tapes 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.560 and the kind of movie people would put on for 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:19.480 a laugh. And it certainly does have elements that are 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.399 very funny. But I also think this movie really does 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:24.560 have a genius and a style of its own that 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:29.359 should be appreciated. Like it's not just ironically good. This 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:33.720 is an exercise in imagination, and I really love it 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:36.800 for what it is. Oh yeah, it's originally entertaining. It 0:03:36.840 --> 0:03:42.240 is intentionally comedic throughout. So it's not just a situation 0:03:42.280 --> 0:03:44.120 of like, ah, look look what they attempted to do, 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:44.840 isn't it funny? 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:45.000 Now? 0:03:45.000 --> 0:03:49.120 Like they're attempting and succeeding multiple times with comedy. We 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:53.280 have a great central performance by Pearl Chang, who is 0:03:53.480 --> 0:04:00.880 at once funny, like broadly so, and yet never really 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.240 never in a way that feels mean. Also, she gets 0:04:04.280 --> 0:04:06.720 she does get to be like the complete like stone 0:04:06.760 --> 0:04:10.880 cold action woman who gets to kill multiple batties. She 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.600 gets to do that a lot, so she gets to 0:04:13.920 --> 0:04:17.520 pull those levers as well. But it's just such a 0:04:17.520 --> 0:04:21.400 captivating performance, like if nothing, you know, if nothing else 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.120 in the film caught your eye, like like she is 0:04:24.560 --> 0:04:26.320 like the shining star at the center of it. 0:04:26.560 --> 0:04:29.560 So like by the end of the movie, the Wolf 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:32.680 Woman that the main character played by Pearl Chang is 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:38.960 she's hardcore like she is, she's a stone cold warrior 0:04:39.320 --> 0:04:41.880 who is coming in to like be the coolest and 0:04:42.360 --> 0:04:45.160 defeat the enemy. But early on in the film there's 0:04:45.240 --> 0:04:47.840 all not just early on in fact, just different scenes 0:04:47.839 --> 0:04:50.920 in the film. It's also like she gets to do 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:55.960 pratfalls and does like slapstick sort of self deprecating klutz humor. 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.560 There's a scene where she accidentally eats too much chicken 0:04:59.600 --> 0:05:01.560 and gets drunk and then beats up a bunch of 0:05:01.600 --> 0:05:03.960 people in a restaurant it's great. 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:08.040 Yeah, you know, it's based on you know, my observations 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:09.400 of the film and also going off some of the 0:05:09.400 --> 0:05:12.679 extras that we were looking at from Justin to Klue 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:16.040 from over at Golden Ninja Video. You know, it's like, 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.120 you have, you have a filmmaker and performer here who 0:05:20.279 --> 0:05:23.160 is who seems to be to varying degrees, like like 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:27.320 bucking the trends and the expectations of a female performer, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.160 of a female role, of a female filmmaker in a 0:05:31.360 --> 0:05:34.919 you know, mostly male dominated world. So it's it's really 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:36.559 it's really inspiring to watch. 0:05:36.760 --> 0:05:40.440 She really embraces the wolfinness of the wolf character. But 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:43.479 just in general, this movie is so it's not just 0:05:43.520 --> 0:05:47.080 the main character. The movie is a wild beast howling 0:05:47.120 --> 0:05:50.320 from the eighth dimension. It just has a lot going on, 0:05:50.440 --> 0:05:53.360 and so much of it happens so fast and with 0:05:53.600 --> 0:05:57.480 a little preparation for it. One thing that's been singled 0:05:57.520 --> 0:06:00.760 out about the style of this movie is the fast 0:06:00.960 --> 0:06:05.240 editing and the action scenes, but also just often quite 0:06:05.520 --> 0:06:10.120 sudden and rapid plot developments. It's all really great stuff. 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:13.839 It's absolutely nuts and it's awesome. One I do want 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:16.440 to issue one word of warning if you're gonna go 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.080 watch this movie because there's a kind of unusual thing 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.480 in it. There were some rabbit hunting scenes that occur 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:27.039 on screen, and it is quite clear that they are unsimulated, 0:06:27.120 --> 0:06:30.920 so large warning. If that's gonna bother you, you might 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:32.919 want to, I don't know, have the fast forward button 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:36.919 ready or just skip this one because there there is 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.280 unsimulated rabbit bow hunting on screen here. 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:45.000 Yeah. Yeah, an unfortunate reality of some of these older pictures. 0:06:46.040 --> 0:06:49.039 And sometimes it's something like this that you can tell 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:52.000 looking at it. Other times was often the case with 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.320 a lot of horsemanship on camera. There is some you know, 0:06:56.600 --> 0:06:58.760 ultimately some animal cruelty going on there that may be 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.600 lost to the average view because we just don't necessarily 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:06.520 recognize what goes in to performing stunts with horses, right, 0:07:06.680 --> 0:07:08.800 But anyway, not to forgive it. It's there and if 0:07:08.800 --> 0:07:11.400 you want to avoid it by all means, avoid it now. 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:14.920 It's worth pointing out this is our third Taiwanese film. 0:07:14.960 --> 0:07:20.000 I believe we previously discussed Thrilling Bloody Sword and Child 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:22.720 of Peach. Both of those are very weird movies. I 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:28.200 would say Thrilling Bloody Sword is more unrelenting psychedelic wusha 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:34.960 and Child of Peach is more intentionally goofy yeah, And 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:37.280 it's interesting in trying sort of place where Wolf Devil 0:07:37.280 --> 0:07:40.000 Woman is between those two, because it's not nearly a 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.760 psychedelic is thrilling, bloody sword, but it has its moments, 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:47.120 And on the other hand, it does have plenty of 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:50.040 broad comedic moments as well, but certainly not to maybe 0:07:50.040 --> 0:07:52.520 the fantastic extremes of Child of Peach. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:56.960 The commentary track on the release of this movie that 0:07:56.960 --> 0:08:00.960 we watched the Golden Ninja release has some some sort 0:08:00.960 --> 0:08:04.840 of general thoughts on it about differences you often see 0:08:04.880 --> 0:08:08.840 between Taiwanese woosh of films and those produced in the 0:08:08.880 --> 0:08:13.120 Hong Kong film industry, and some of the things that 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.320 this is by justin the clue of Golden Ninja video, 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.400 and he says several things are like, first of all, 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.560 Taiwanese movies of this sort tended to be lower budget, 0:08:22.680 --> 0:08:26.080 they would be made faster and cheaper than Hong Kong films. 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:28.960 But also they tended to kind of make up for 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:32.800 that by being wackier and more imaginative and having more 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:37.640 unusual fantasy elements, often more gore. You definitely see that here. 0:08:37.760 --> 0:08:39.760 In addition to what we already mentioned, there are some 0:08:40.520 --> 0:08:45.400 unrealistic looking but quite interesting gore effects and just more 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.920 of a kind of wide ranging, fast moving, kind of 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:51.680 fast and loose feel to them. 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.600 Yeah. I remember one thing that he mentioned in some 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:56.240 of the exers for Thrilling Bloody Sword is the y 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:58.920 It's kind of like the underdog status of Taiwanese cinema 0:08:59.000 --> 0:09:01.320 of the time period, where Yeah, they really felt like 0:09:01.360 --> 0:09:03.720 they had to do all these things. You know, Hong 0:09:03.840 --> 0:09:08.120 Kong cinema had the advantage, but we Taiwanese cinema could 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:13.240 be even more daring, daring and stunts, daring and plot elements, 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:14.920 the magic, the wackiness, what have you. 0:09:15.400 --> 0:09:17.520 I do really love a lot of the stunts in 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.559 this movie, and it is stuff that you will have 0:09:21.200 --> 0:09:23.520 you will have seen in other movies of this type, 0:09:23.600 --> 0:09:27.280 like There Is the Woosha star often has a kind 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:30.679 of flying type ability or a weightlessness that they were 0:09:30.679 --> 0:09:33.600 able to manifest so they can leap up thirty feet 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:36.480 in the air or sort of zoom across the zoom 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:39.840 across the room without their feet touching the floor. So 0:09:39.880 --> 0:09:42.920 there's similar kinds of stunts to you would what you 0:09:42.920 --> 0:09:44.640 would find in other movies of this type. But I 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.440 like the way they appear on screen here. Often, like 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:50.240 when the wolf Devil woman leaps up in the air, 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:52.679 like you know, up into the tree tops, it will 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.640 be filmed in a kind of slow motion that gives 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:57.160 her this this magical weight. 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.319 Yeah. Absolutely. It has some of these these great Lusha 0:10:00.480 --> 0:10:05.120 moments with the floating, the flying, the like strange physical 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:09.079 interactions occurring by two flying characters, nit air that sort 0:10:09.120 --> 0:10:11.640 of thing. Yeah yeah, and then some just straight up 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:13.439 Mortal Kombat fatalities. 0:10:14.080 --> 0:10:17.080 Yeah. Yeah. There's there's a lot of sorcery too. So, 0:10:17.200 --> 0:10:20.040 like the bad guys in the movie have a habit 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.440 of walking up to people and just blasting these huge, 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:27.880 billowing gusts of fog out of their sleeves that somehow 0:10:27.920 --> 0:10:31.560 like either burn people or freeze them. 0:10:31.640 --> 0:10:34.920 There's the Lady Demon Minion who covers people with spiders in. 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:36.400 Web yes, the Witch. 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:39.079 Yeah, so there's plenty of magic to go around. It's 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:39.679 what we're saying. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.760 Okay, should we do the elevator pitch. 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:42.679 Let's have it. 0:10:42.920 --> 0:10:46.400 A young woman is raised by wolves after her parents 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.760 are murdered by the minions of a sparkly devil. The 0:10:49.800 --> 0:10:53.480 wolves happen to feed this young girl a plant root 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:55.840 that is a sort of one of a kind plant root, 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:58.280 a once in a thousand years root that gives her 0:10:58.360 --> 0:11:02.600 amazing powers of heightless sleeping in martial arts. And then 0:11:02.600 --> 0:11:05.480 when a pair of heroic adventurers meet the wolf woman, 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.800 they teach her to speak human language and live like 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.880 a human at least sort of, and they inadvertently open 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:15.360 her mind to a bloody path of revenge against the demon. 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.800 All right, Joe, what's your what's your tagline for this one? 0:11:20.120 --> 0:11:24.320 Who are you gonna call white gensing? Okay, gen sing root? 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.959 Yeah, white gensing has a major role in this picture, 0:11:28.240 --> 0:11:31.479 despite the fact that, as far as I can understand, 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:35.920 like white gensing is just a variety of gensyng that 0:11:36.160 --> 0:11:39.360 you encounter and you can buy. So I don't know 0:11:39.400 --> 0:11:43.520 if this was ultimately something where the actual term used 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:47.000 in the Mandarin it's referring to some sort of mythical substance, 0:11:47.880 --> 0:11:49.640 because there are plenty of things like that, you know 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:51.600 that we've discussed in the Unstuffed A blow of your 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:53.720 mind before, you know, some sort of mythical substance that 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.040 grows on a sacred mountain and has to be harvested. 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:59.760 So maybe it was something like that somehow, you know, 0:12:00.320 --> 0:12:04.079 linked to the source material, and it's just been replaced 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.040 in dubs and subtitles as White Genzen. Hmm. 0:12:07.160 --> 0:12:08.640 Yeah, I didn't know what to make of that. 0:12:09.120 --> 0:12:11.560 All right. Normally we would try, we would hit you 0:12:11.600 --> 0:12:14.319 with some trailer audio right now, but as far as 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.600 I know, there is not a theatrical trailer available for 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:21.840 this film, either for its original market or uh you know, 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:24.920 for international markets. So instead I thought we just might 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.560 have just a quick audio sample of some of the 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:33.400 audio nuttiness of this film, because there are multiple times 0:12:33.679 --> 0:12:35.240 while I was watching it where I was just like, man, 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:37.360 even if you weren't watching this film, if you're just 0:12:37.480 --> 0:12:40.240 listening to it, it's just absolutely bonkers. 0:12:40.480 --> 0:12:42.160 Maybe we can get some of the English dub of 0:12:42.200 --> 0:12:43.599 the demon talking. 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:46.280 Oh, yes, yes he is. He is fabulous. All right, 0:12:46.360 --> 0:12:46.719 let's have. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:59.280 It such a great here. It's becoming. Yeah, I understand 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.800 you came here to kill me, but it looks and 0:13:02.120 --> 0:13:03.520 things and change. 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:09.360 All right now, if you want to watch Wolf, Devil 0:13:09.400 --> 0:13:13.200 Woman before we proceed, first of all, bear in mind, 0:13:13.240 --> 0:13:15.559 it has all these different titles. If you're searching for it, 0:13:16.440 --> 0:13:20.680 you might need a search for Wolf and Ninja. You'll 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:25.160 find Queen Wolf and Queen and so forth. You of course, 0:13:25.200 --> 0:13:28.120 also you can always you know, get the original like 0:13:28.200 --> 0:13:32.120 Mandarin title and you know, in the Mandarin characters and 0:13:32.160 --> 0:13:33.680 throw that into search and you might be able to 0:13:33.679 --> 0:13:34.439 find it as well. 0:13:34.840 --> 0:13:37.000 But I think we should make clear that if you're 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.880 like looking for versions of this on disc or on 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.680 the Internet and you can't find one where the picture 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.079 is good, yeah, that's just sort of what you're stuck 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.080 with apparently there as far as I'm aware, there is 0:13:48.320 --> 0:13:51.760 really no good looking version of this movie out there. 0:13:52.240 --> 0:13:54.920 Yeah, I mean, hopefully that'll change, because I believe that 0:13:55.120 --> 0:13:59.000 changed with Thrilling Bloody Sword. We had the version that 0:13:59.160 --> 0:14:02.400 came out, that Golden video put out, and if memory 0:14:02.440 --> 0:14:07.480 serves correctly, some better source material for it, something that 0:14:07.520 --> 0:14:11.320 could maybe be remastered, has surfaced and we can look 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.520 forward to another even more magical release of Thrilling Bloody Swords. So, 0:14:15.520 --> 0:14:17.640 you know, as films like this become popular, you never 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.360 know what they're going to turn up. We have, we've 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:23.280 discussed cases of this before, such as Santo in the 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.240 Treasure of Dracula, where they thought that, you know, any 0:14:27.160 --> 0:14:29.520 any color print of this movie was just lost, and 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:30.680 then they found it in a vault. 0:14:31.160 --> 0:14:33.400 I would really love to discover that in this case 0:14:33.440 --> 0:14:36.680 because so yeah, we both watched it on the the 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:41.760 disc release by Golden Ninja Video, and that disc has 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:45.960 two different versions of the film, both of which have problems. 0:14:46.480 --> 0:14:49.960 One is one in the original aspect ratio, which is 0:14:50.000 --> 0:14:52.680 like a wide screen version of the movie that the 0:14:52.720 --> 0:14:56.720 picture is really pretty poor, like the colors are kind 0:14:56.720 --> 0:15:00.160 of messed up, and the it's not very sharp, and 0:15:00.240 --> 0:15:04.000 it has hard baked in Greek subtitles, which I don't know, 0:15:04.040 --> 0:15:06.600 maybe that's your thing, but I guess they kind of 0:15:06.640 --> 0:15:09.720 pile up if you're also watching it with English subtitles 0:15:09.800 --> 0:15:12.880 or whatever subtitles on top of that. But maybe that's 0:15:12.920 --> 0:15:16.440 a good one to watch with a dub. Though in general, 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:18.960 I can recommend the English dub on this movie, which 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:21.080 is quite fun, yes, and. 0:15:21.080 --> 0:15:22.800 I think that's key. Like one of the things about 0:15:22.880 --> 0:15:25.600 dubs is you want a dub that is at least 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:28.440 mostly accurate, and you want the dub to more or 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.320 less match the intended tone of the film, Like, if 0:15:31.360 --> 0:15:32.960 it's a serious film or it has kind of a 0:15:33.000 --> 0:15:37.000 serious tone, you don't want you don't want the dub 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.160 to be making fun of the picture. You don't want 0:15:40.160 --> 0:15:44.280 the dub to be completely off kilter. And I feel 0:15:44.280 --> 0:15:47.640 like the dub is wacky and fun in a way 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:50.280 that the movie is whacky and fun, and at least 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:52.920 to my ear, it never came off as disrespectful. 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:56.480 But anyway, that is the wide screen version on the disc. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.560 There was also a full screen version, where from what 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.200 I can tell, the picture is sharper, so it's a 0:16:03.240 --> 0:16:06.120 little bit better looking, but it's badly cropped, so you're 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:08.400 missing a lot of the original film. 0:16:08.680 --> 0:16:11.640 That's the version I watched. I looked at the other one, 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:14.160 the wide screen, and I just felt like the picture 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.080 quality was overall two degraded for me to get into 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:19.320 it as much, so I decided to go with the 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.320 other though I will say it did probably make some 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:26.200 of the action sequences, especially those in the last quarter 0:16:26.240 --> 0:16:28.640 of the picture, a little more confusing. For sure. 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:31.840 I think those are somewhat confusing no matter what crop 0:16:31.880 --> 0:16:34.040 you're looking at, that's the thing, right. 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:40.240 So yeah, that Golden Ninja video release was titled Wolf 0:16:40.280 --> 0:16:42.840 Devil Director the Films of Pearl Chang. It was a 0:16:42.840 --> 0:16:47.200 two disc thing. It's currently out of print, but hey, 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.880 you can go to gold Ninja video dot Com. You 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.640 sign up for their newsletter, maybe hassle them a little bit. 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.120 Who knows, they might put it out again. I know 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:56.640 they've rereleased things in the past. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.360 I would get a copy if they put it out again. 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:00.440 Yeah. 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:02.760 And by the way, we should say that that release 0:17:03.280 --> 0:17:05.760 not only has Wolf Devil Woman that one is sort 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:08.680 of the main main event, but it also has some 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:13.719 of Zangling or Pearl Chang's other films in uh. I 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:15.920 think it. In fact, I wonder does it have all 0:17:16.000 --> 0:17:18.040 three of the ones that she wrote and directed. I 0:17:18.040 --> 0:17:21.400 believe it does have matching escort, and I think it 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:23.879 does have the one about the Flower. 0:17:24.640 --> 0:17:26.040 I think you're right. I don't have it's in the 0:17:26.119 --> 0:17:27.639 other room, so I can't pick it up and look 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:31.560 at it right now. Okay, but it's definitely worth picking 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.879 up if you're interested in these films. Again, we rented 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.280 it from Video Drum here in Atlanta, as we often do, 0:17:38.280 --> 0:17:40.960 so if you are local to Atlanta or visiting Atlanta 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:43.359 with your Blu Ray Player, you can go over to 0:17:43.440 --> 0:17:47.000 video Drome and rent it for yourself and just a 0:17:47.080 --> 0:17:51.119 quick shout out here. Video Drome, in cooperation with a 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:54.240 couple other parties, are trying to put together wings Fest, 0:17:54.720 --> 0:17:59.760 a film festival devoted to the magical work of wings. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.200 How we've talked about wings Houser on the show before 0:18:02.200 --> 0:18:05.080 because he was the villain in Beast Master two. Well, 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:09.199 they're trying to they're trying to bring him in for 0:18:09.640 --> 0:18:12.399 as a special guest for wings Fest. So if that, 0:18:12.600 --> 0:18:14.680 if you're interested in that at all, if you're in 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.000 town or going to be in town for it, go 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.639 to video Drums Instagram account. They are video Drome underscore 0:18:20.760 --> 0:18:23.280 at l and you can find out more. It's currently 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.480 in the kickstarter phase, so yeah, jump in and help 0:18:26.520 --> 0:18:27.840 fund it if that interests you. 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:38.880 All right, would you like to talk about the connections 0:18:38.920 --> 0:18:39.840 in this movie? 0:18:40.359 --> 0:18:42.080 Yeah, we're going to get into it as much as 0:18:42.080 --> 0:18:45.320 we can. This one is definitely a film with the 0:18:45.440 --> 0:18:48.760 least amount of information on the available databases, so we're 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:53.760 talking you know, the movie database IMDb, also the Hong 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:59.240 Kong Movie Database, which often provides additional insight into films 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.159 from Hong Kong. Taiwanese and mainland Chinese cinema. But in 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.280 this case really not so much. Like we said, this 0:19:06.400 --> 0:19:09.640 is one of the more mysterious films that we've looked at. 0:19:09.800 --> 0:19:11.439 But we're going to walk you through what we know. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.160 So starting at the top, Yeah, it's Pearl Chang Ling 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:20.240 or Pearl Chang and so forth, the director, the writer, 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:23.520 the producer, the star. And also she did the theme 0:19:23.560 --> 0:19:24.320 song vocals. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:27.879 Oh okay, Yeah, she sang the theme song to some 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:30.199 other projects that she was involved in before she was 0:19:30.240 --> 0:19:31.720 directing her own films as well. 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.080 Yeah, she I mean, she is just a tour de 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:38.280 force here. So she was born in nineteen fifty five. 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.159 According to the Hong Kong Movie Database, she was active 0:19:41.160 --> 0:19:44.920 from seventy two through eighty three, acting in twenty four films, 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:48.880 writing for directing three. And I want to just add 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:50.600 an asterisk there because I know that there are some 0:19:50.680 --> 0:19:54.840 films that it's thought that she did direct, but another 0:19:55.440 --> 0:19:59.280 director that maybe just a pseudonym, is attributed. And again 0:19:59.359 --> 0:20:01.280 we don't have lot of information to go on in 0:20:01.280 --> 0:20:02.200 the databases here. 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.399 From what I was reading and what was in the 0:20:04.480 --> 0:20:08.320 documentary on the disc, it seems that it is acknowledged 0:20:08.359 --> 0:20:11.160 that she directed four films, and one of them has 0:20:11.200 --> 0:20:13.440 a director's credit that is a pseudonym for her. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:18.719 Okay, Well, the three that are definitely her There's A 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:21.960 Romantic Night in eighty one, matching Escort in eighty two, 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:26.800 and Wolf Devil Woman in eighty two as well, So 0:20:27.040 --> 0:20:29.600 this picture would seem to appear pretty late in her 0:20:29.600 --> 0:20:32.520 film career, followed only by a trio of nineteen eighty 0:20:32.560 --> 0:20:35.960 three films in which she acted the three famous constables, 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:39.119 General Invincible, which she also wrote, and is that the 0:20:39.160 --> 0:20:41.080 one that she also may have. 0:20:41.040 --> 0:20:43.800 Directed, possibly, I'm not sure. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.399 And then Fantasy Mission Force. 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:48.360 She didn't direct that one. That is a movie that 0:20:48.520 --> 0:20:51.080 she started in along with Jackie Chan. 0:20:51.359 --> 0:20:55.480 That's right, yes, now. IMDb also lists her as an 0:20:55.600 --> 0:20:58.680 uncredited actor in nineteen ninety one's Thunder Ninja Kids The 0:20:58.760 --> 0:21:01.560 Hunt for the Devil Boxer, but this is not reflected 0:21:01.680 --> 0:21:04.280 on Hong Kong Movie Database, and I don't think it 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.480 was mentioned on the extras for the Gold Ninja release, 0:21:07.560 --> 0:21:10.120 so I'm tempted to dismiss this one. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.520 Yeah, but once again, in the case of Wolf Devil Woman, 0:21:14.600 --> 0:21:18.080 we know that she wrote it, produced it, directed it, 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:20.520 and starred in it in multiple roles. 0:21:20.880 --> 0:21:23.840 Yes, yeah, I believe she plays her own mother, as 0:21:23.880 --> 0:21:24.480 we'll discuss. 0:21:24.680 --> 0:21:27.640 Yeah, Rob, I don't know if you've got a chance 0:21:27.680 --> 0:21:29.879 to watch it, but there is a short documentary I 0:21:29.880 --> 0:21:31.960 think it's about ten minutes long on the Golden Ninja 0:21:32.000 --> 0:21:37.160 release that focuses on the life and work of Zang 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.600 Ling or Pearl Chang, what we were able to know 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:41.120 about her. 0:21:41.520 --> 0:21:42.199 I did watch this. 0:21:42.520 --> 0:21:44.960 Oh, okay, quite good. So yeah, this is good. So 0:21:46.280 --> 0:21:48.280