THE DARING GANG OF NINETEEN FROM VERDUN CITY (1959)
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Directed by: Tu Kuang-chi
Starring: Josephine Siao Fong-fong
Fans of martial arts movies most likely know Josephine Siao Fong-fong best as Jet Li's kickass mom in Fong Sai Yuk (1993) but she was famous for decades before that movie rebooted her career at 47 years old. Starting in movies when she was seven, and appearing opposite a 14 year-old Bruce Lee a year later in An Orphan's Tragedy (1955), she got her first role as an action heroine in this flick when she was only 12. Essential viewing for her fans, in Daring Gang, Siao Fong-fong plays a child raised from birth to take revenge on the Evil-Doer (that’s literally how he’s credited) but she’s never told why. It’s not until they meet that she learns the reasons why she’s had to devote her entire young life to killing this man she doesn’t know. Complications ensue.