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The Lady Is the Boss

The Lady Is the Boss

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 31, 1983

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Action, Comedy

User Score

55%

Original Title

掌門人

Production Companies

Shaw Brothers

Director

Lau Kar-leung

Description

Wong Hsia Yuan is an old-fashioned martial arts master who's so behind the times that he'd rather his school be destroyed than change its ways. He may get his wish, thanks to the young, beautiful, intelligent Chan Mei Ling, who arrives from the states to open a new branch of the school. Armed with an unfamiliar, modern way of thinking, Mei Ling goes about recruiting new students in strange, and sometimes questionably legal ways. Yuan is furious, but when the local triads enter the picture, the two put their differences aside to take back the neighborhood.