A young woman named Yin dreams of leaving her modest village life for a chance to try to make it big as a martial arts movie star. Leaving for the big city with her boyfriend, life takes a turn for poor Yin when she soon finds herself addicted to drugs and being pimped out by her boyfriend. After a violent altercation forces Yin to flee to Hong Kong, it's not long before she ends up on the radar of the police. Without any other options, Yin makes a deal with the police to go undercover with one of their straight-laced female detectives, Hung, in order to try and bring down a notorious drug dealer nicknamed ""King Kong."" Victimized by the men in their lives, the two unlikely friends must team up to protect each other from the criminals out to get them and work together to get revenge on those who have betrayed them.
Directed by frequent collaborators David Lai and Corey Yuen (the duo responsible for the Savior of the Soul films, as well as the Transporter franchise), WOMEN ON THE RUN stands out compared to the many other Hong Kong action films of the time, thanks in part to its controversial CAT III rating. Playing as part ""buddy cop"" film mixed with a ""girls with guns"" aesthetic, WOMEN ON THE RUN also takes heavy inspiration from the exploitation films of decades prior, due to the sometimes shocking ordeals that the women must face before getting their revenge. Vinegar Syndrome Archive is proud to present WOMEN ON THE RUN, for the first time on Blu-ray here in the States, newly restored from the original camera negative and complete with all the female ass-kicking one could ask for.
directed by: David Lai, Corey Yuen
starring: Tamara Guo, Farini Cheung, Wai-Tak Wong, Corey Yuen, Won Jin
1993 / 89 min / 1.85:1 / Cantonese, English DTS-HD Master Audio Mono
Additional info:
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Region A Blu-ray
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Scanned and restored in house by Vinegar Syndrome in 2K from its 35mm original camera negative
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Presented in its original Cantonese mono soundtrack with newly translated English subtitles, English language dub soundtrack, and a Mandarin language dub soundtrack
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Commentary track with film writer Travis Woods
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"Hong Kong's Thelma & Louise" (17 min) - an interview with producer/co-director David Lai
- "What You See Is What You Get" (23 min) - a conversation with producer Shan Tam and production manager Michael Parker
- "Corey Yuen and Girls with Guns" (12 min) - a video essay by film historian and author Samm Deighan
- 16-page booklet with an essay by Erica Shultz
- Original trailer
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Reversible sleeve artwork
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English SDH subtitles
