Originally titled DEADLY DREAM WOMAN in Hong Kong I assume this new American title is meant to confuse people with Jet Li's BLACK MASK movie which was made in 1996 so there really isn't any connection beyond the fact that there is a character who wears a black mask in both films. Also this film is more of a comedy whereas Li's thing was a superhero type film from what I recall. While I'm not a big fan of Jet Li, I do enjoy kung fu chicks and this movie has quite a bit of them. The one major drawback to fully enjoying this film for me is the version I have of it, on glorious VHS, has teeny-tiny microscope white subtitles and if you can read those over a white background you're a better person than me. Of course this isn't the most complicated movie to figure out. There's some triad mobster shenanigans, people get assassinated, our main lady gets amnesia and ends up living at a whorehouse. The gal from NAKED KILLER, Chingmy Yau, is in this and she is super hot and always great to look at, although there isn't any nakedness on display here. She's also not the main character despite what the video box promises. You do get lots of kung-fu, gun-fu and knife-fu which luckily doesn't need any translation to understand.
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