Dark Heroine Muk Lan-fa Pulp Covers
Here are some images of Dark Heroine Muk Lan-fa pulp novel covers I ganked from this Yahoo Blog. I thought I’d bring it to an English-speaking audience, the small core of us who are interested in films and books like this. besides the three original Dark Heroine Muk Lan-fa films (good overview on Lucha Diaries), there was also a long series of pulp novels, the exact number I am not certain of. The novels look to be reprinted at some point with less spectacular covers, and you can order them on your Chinese eReaders if you read Chinese and want to Google that info yourself. The rest of us will have to just look at these cool bookcovers. Besides the film series and books, there was also a tv series in the late 80s or early 90s, IIRC. The Dark Heroine Muk Laf-fa also inspired The Heroic Trio films.
For more Muk Lan-fa fun, here is a photobook from The Dark Heroine Shattered the Black Dragon Gang, the second film in the series, that Todd posted on FourDK.
Enjoy the novel covers! My favorite one is the clown shooting a clown out of a cannon.
Nice! I have to go with the clown one, too. A lot (if not all) of these novels were written by Ni Kuang, who basically wrote every Shaw Bros. movie ever, and also created the character Wisely. That’s right, a world without Ni Kuang would be a world without Muk Lan-fa, The One Armed Swordsman, The Seventh Curse and The Cat! And also that other Wisely movie from the 00s that everybody hates.
P.S. Do you think the clown is firing that clown at… another clown? If so, maybe when that clown is hit, he’ll bleed clowns.
If he bleeds clowns that also shoot clowns at other clowns, then we’ll enter Clown-pocalypse! Good thing Muk Lan-fa is on the case…
Where can we find those books they look cool. I know it’s in Chinese but most likely I could get it translated.
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