Ge Tianli (Lily Ho) is the kind of cool killer who can sneak up on a man in a theme park — while the theme of From Russia With Love plays — and murder him with a dart that fires out of her makeup compact. Lily didn’t set out to be a murderess for hire, but when her entire family was murdered, she got revenge. The bad news is that a Triad named Xiaojiang (Chang Pei-shan) saw her and has been blackmailing her for two years, forcing her to pay him every month or do murder for hire. She’d rather just pour drinks at her bar.

When Shi Yun-pu (Chan Shen) gets out of prison, all the gangs want him silenced, as he’s extorting the big boss and threatening to speak up about all of the gang’s secrets. Lily is blackmailed into killing him at a bowling alley. Instead of paying her, they try to wipe her out, but she’s too deadly — and stylish — for that. Even when they send Bolo Yeung after her, she comes out on top.

This was co-directed by Japanese director Akinori Matsuo and Chih-Hung Kuei, so it has some of the feel of early 70s Yakuza movies. It may not get as wild as Chih-Hung Kuei’s later movies, but this is definitely an early version of the movies that John Woo would make more than a decade later.