Spy With My Face (Review)

Spy With My Face

aka Black Rose vs. Black Rose aka Hei mei gui yu hei mei gui aka 黑玫瑰與黑玫瑰

1966
Directed by Chor Yuen
Written by Poon Faan

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The sequel to 1965’s Black Rose has a greatly expanded scope, as the Chan sisters go from being champions of the poor to outright superheroes who take down a sinister secret gang intent on robbing jewelry from all over the city. The James Bond influence is very heavy, as there are a lot of gadgets, microbombs, disguises, and hidden identities. The film also has what sounds like an original score that is rather well done as well (and also Bond influenced).
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The review of Black Rose has miniprofiles of Nam Hung, Connie Chan, Patrick Tse, and Chor Yuen, so we don’t have to do it here! Hooray for laziness! We also have the overviews of the Jane Bond genre and other interesting links there so we don’t have to link it again here. Spy With My Face is notable because this film was where Connie Chan eclipsed Nam Hung and became a bona fide Hong Kong superstar.

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A color print does survive in the HKFA vault, but the VCD release is a black and white dub probably made for TV. This sucks, because it would be great to see all the funky colors. At this point in time Cantonese cinema was on the decline as the Shaw Brothers were becoming the standard with their high production values and massive use of color. Shaw was also putting out their own spy films at this time, some with female leads as well.

Once again we have no subtitles, but TarsTarkas.NET doesn’t need no stinking subtitles! And the wife translated about half of the film before deciding it was time for bed, so the rest I just followed along the story as best I could. It all works out fine.

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Chan Mei-Yi (Nam Hung) – The older Chan sister, who is freed from the constant attention of rich bachelors because she spends the whole film helping her friend Cheung. Is Black Rose along with her younger sister.
Chan Mei-Ling (Connie Chan Po-Chu) – The younger Chan sister who is sassy and tough. She doesn’t put up with bad guys’ crap and would just as soon beat the tar out of them as look at them.
Black Rose (Nam Hung and Connie Chan Po-Chu) – Black Rose moves up from Robin Hood thief to gangbuster as the Black Roses save an entire city from an evil criminal element while saving their friend at the same time. Remember, it is only good to steal if you steal from those who deserve to lose it.
Cheung Man Fu (Patrick Tse Yin) – Insurance investigator and subject of Chan Mei-Yi’s attraction. Gets himself caught up in a nasty situation and replaced with an evil duplicate.
Gold Boss (Cheung Wood-Yau) – All my wife could translate of his name was Gold _____ – so we will call him Gold Boss. If he doesn’t like it, he can get bent. Gold Boss runs the secret society that kidnaps Cheung to rob all sorts of rich people. He’s also a refugee from a Mexican Wrestling film. Cheung Wood-Yau was in film for almost thirty years at this point, and only made a few more films before retiring in 1969 (with one later appearance in 1980’s Duel of Death.)
Fake Cheung Man Fu / #1 (Patrick Tse Yin) – Fake Cheung is the most worthless gang member on the team. Had he not undergone surgery to look like Cheung he would be #0 as he would have been fired. Was saving your job really worth the pain? Despite looking like Cheung, he totally doesn’t act like Cheung at all and dresses in dark shirts and sunglasses in order to look like a gangster, thus keeping his innocent insurance investigator cover. Fake Cheung is not the sharpest of tacks.
#2 (Fung Ngai) – The mute gang member. Only a mute guy would put up with being named #2, because that means you can’t hear him complain! Fung Ngai also played #1 in fellow 1966 spy film The Golden Buddha. Among his many other film appearances is Come Drink With Me.
#3 (Wong Hon) – The nerdy gang member who is fourth in charge and has confidence problems. Wong Hon was a Chor Yuen regular, appearing as a policeman in Black Rose, a doctor in Intimate Confessions of a Chinese Courtesan, and many other Chor Yuen films.

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Wingnut Web – Pathetic Excuse For A Human Being Edition

So, Resistnet.com won’t leave me alone. They can’t quit me. Resistnet.com wants to have gay sex with me. I try to ignore them for a few weeks and they cry like spoiled babies wanting attention. So, I guess I shall pay them a visit one more time. The tears of impotent rage are like a drug to me, and Resistnet is one of the best highs around. Wingnut Web has been dealing with them since the beginning. We’ll be dealing with them until they all die of old age in about twenty minutes. Until then, we have to read their posts and marvel at how they figured out how to even turn their computers on.

Trooper knows the Final Solution is near.
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Reality makes Michael Erway angry. And he is far above mocking of people
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Michael Erway is no longer above mocking people and now applauds it
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Karen Belver is a poster child for the need for government run mental healthcare
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gary kaalberg is telling more war stories, he has fought in every major war since 1776!
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He’s also dying of cancer. Because when you are dying of cancer, you post on the internet and get master’s degrees and all the other stuff he is claiming to do.
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And he works for the CIA as a sniper!
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gary kaalberg threatens to quit and namedrops the best site on the internet…
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gary kaalberg is such a threat that some Resistnet posters question if he is a troll
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What the heck, indeed!
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Hot Google Alert action!
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By very polite note he means he posted two comments where he called me names.
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This is my favorite post ever. That email address is for the registrar of GoDaddy, btw, which isn’t even the registrar I use. The rest of the information is similarly as accurate
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That means a lot coming from someone who spends 16 hours a day removing racist comments from Resistnet, and yet the site is still filled to the brim with them.
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Translation: Please send death threats to this guy.
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gary is still posting the wrong information days later…Resistnet posters salivate at the thought of calling me up and getting reported to the FBI and sent to jail
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And now I killed his dog? WTF???
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Here is what gary kaalberg wrote here:

let me set a few things straight. as a veteran i fought for yours and my freedom to say and believe what we choose to. unlike you i will not attack you personally. that is childish. i didnt vote for obama because of his record of voting in illinois as a senator. the record is there for everyone to see. voting present doesnt get it. thats a cowards way of sitting on the fence. it allows you to be on the winning side. you are probably thinking i am a red neck again you would be wrong. i didnt like bush either. i believe as a country that we can be socially conservative and take care of each other without involving the government. i believe that every american has the right to food housing and medical care. i give my time freely to help the poor. i dont need a community organizer to tell me how to do it. if you want to make a diffference in america then quit drinking the kool aid and invest the time in really checking out who you support.

Ha, sure you didn’t like Bush.

instead of acting infantile why dont you openly and honestly make your case. i will gladly share any research i have. i do not buy into prison planet anymore than any other sight. in fact i debunked the fema coffin junk. i ask all this. every president since eisenhower has made their birth cert. college trans. and other personal data available. why wont obama, how could he travel to pakistan and afghanistan when they were banned for travel from by the state dept.

You haven’t shared crap of the pictures you supposedly have, and your entire claim is full of as much crap as every other thing you say.

Added bonus: Resistnet.com also discusses the 365Black.com McDonald’s website!

CSA avatar guy shows his patriotism
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gary kaalberg shows he is an insane racist besides being army, navy, air force, CIA, dale henderson, a genius, dying of cancer, and Jesus
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They don’t hire white only, the fraks!
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Poor white southerners and their racism. When will they catch a break?
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Slave Owner Pryde 4 Lyfe!
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Ah, Resistnet.com. Go fuck yourselves!

Assault Girls

Assault Girls trailer

Assault Girls

UPDATE: Read our review of Assault Girls here!

Japanese girls vs giant sand worms in the post-apocalyptic future. NipponCinema brought the trailer to the outside world.

Plot: In the aftermath of global thermonuclear war, the Earth’s surface has been turned into a desert battlefield. Three beautiful female hunters: Gray (Meisa Kuroki), Lucifer (Rinko Kikuchi), and Colonel (Hinako Saeki) traverse the barren landscape armed with powerful assault rifles to fight a group of deadly sand-dwelling monsters called “sunakujira” (sand whales). When the the epic battle eventually seems to be coming to an end, the sparkle of muzzle flash dies down and assault ship flies overhead. Suddenly, a gigantic super mutation called “Madara Sunakujira” attacks.
Mamoru Oshii directs and it hits theaters in Japan in December, no word on if it will show up in the US.

previous story here
thanks to Avery for the head’s up

Wingnut Web – I'm STILL NOT Lovin' It! Edition

foxnation.com left their article about 365Black.com open all weekend and it collected many many many more racist statements, all 100% approved by the FoxNation.com moderators! Just imagine what didn’t get through! If you want to read the first part, it is here, and we got plenty of the same. Don’t worry, FoxNation.com will continue to keep putting up story after story that encourages their angry old white guy posters to continue to post whatever terrible bile leaks out of their tiny tiny brains. Thus, giving us more material than we can ever handle. But that’s won’t mean we won’t try! Wingnut Web is a job that will never end. So let’s get started…

Gman blames the “coloreds” and Obama.
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FoxNation.com posters are dumb racists. But that doesn’t mean all dumb racists are FoxNation.com posters…
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A black guys shows up and is shocked, SHOCKED that there are conservative racists
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Another defender of racist comments declares “get out!” if you don’t like our racism!
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Sunny declares racism is over right now, and now it is racist
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I want you to get hit by a bus. A black bus.
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You heard it here first, 80% of all commercials are targeted to blacks.
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macgig is the White Sharpton, or wears sheets on his head that come to a sharp point. One of the other…
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Blacks just make us so racist! Damn you, black people!
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Somehow I don’t think McDonald’s will miss HD Rider’s business.
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I was brought up racist but am not racist except this BLACK WOMAN totally tried to get me to be racist
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JJ Abrams completely ruined Star Trek when he rebooted it.
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A voice of reason?
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Black people are all gang bangers anyway.
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HD Rider is still classy
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Because black people can’t speak English, see…
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Okay: McDonald’s White People website
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Clifford the big red dog hates the big bad blacks
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Black people never heard of belts!
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The thread is still open, so when more racism pops up and I’m not too bored, we might even get a parts 3!