The Lady Avenger
New York Asian Film Festival 2013
June 28 - July 11, 2013
In this bloody rape-revenge flick from one of Taiwan’s only female exploitation directors, a reporter goes eye-for-an-eye on her attackers, killing them by bear trap, knife, blowtorch, and meat hook.
Yang Chia-yun is one of the only female directors of Taiwan’s notorious “Black Movies,” and so it makes sense that her best film is this intense rape-revenge shocker. When a reporter is gang-raped, she decides her only option is to go eye-for-an-eye and so, one by one, she kills her rapists by bear trap, by knife, by blowtorch, and by meat hook.
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