Shui Erh (Fu Yin-yu) is the illegitimate daughter of a prince, yet she was raised in a brothel by Kao Lao-ta (Tan Hui-wei) and has become a courtesan. The royal prince (Tony Ka Fai Leung) learns that she is his sister and wants to use her to gain power. Yet before that can happen, another prince sends assassins to kill her. She runs from the destruction of her brothel home and finds safety in the woods, where she’s saved by a young fisherman (Tung Wei).

Directed by Cha Chuan-yi, this is the last theatrical Shaw Brothers martial arts movie for decades. It’s pretty sleazy and filled with sex, nudity and outright exploitation, as there’s a lot of sexual slavery in the plot. It also has a moment that completely rips off Romancing the Stone.

It starts with two teams of killers chasing our heroes and then settles into a shack for most of the movie and becomes a soap opera and then has an ending that blows up a lot of the Shaw sets. The male protagonist can’t fight and it ends up that his sister is one of the assassins coming to kill Shui Erh and when those two female fighters kill one another, he feels guilty and even hates Shui Erh, but soon, they fall for one another. There’s also kung fu mental powers and a downbeat ending, if you like that kind of thing. I do.