V-MADONNA: THE GREAT WAR (1985)

 A biker gang vs. a Japanese high school. The school hires some kickass ladies, including some lady wrestlers, to help them. Things get pretty rough and this has a weird mix of comic book action and pinky violence-type assaults. There's rape, vagina burning, a gal hung on an upside down cross and generally lots of abuse of women but also a lot of women getting revenge and kicking ass. YOJIMBO gets name-checked though the plot is more closely inspired by THE SEVEN SAMURAI. A good watch but I'm still not sure what Madonna has to do with any of these goings on.  AKA GO FOR BROKE

CLAN OF THE WHITE LOTUS (1980)

  This Shaw Brothers kung fu flick is actually a sequel to 1977's EXECUTIONERS OF DEATH (there was also another sequel in '79 called ABBOT OF SHAOLIN but I've yet to see that one) and starts right out with the final scene from the previous film. It's also kinda similar with another Pei-Mei character, named The White Lotus in the subtitled version I watched and called Pak Mei in the dubbed version, so it also gets called a remake frequently. Besides the more typical tiger and crane style martial arts there's a feminine embroidery kung fu and even some acupuncture-fu. This one goes from being silly to being a bloody tale of revenge, sometimes even in the same fight scene, but it all worked for me and if you're a Shaw Brothers fam at all this is one to check out.

                                    AKA FISTS OF THE WHITE LOTUS:

ROBOWAR (1988)

 In a lot of director Bruno Mattei's later films he was very fond of mixing a couple of famous genre films together and this is a good example of one of those. This time it's PREDATOR and ROBOCOP which features a group of commandos known as B.A.M.(Bad Ass Motherfuckers!) trying to take down a killer cyborg created by the government as a weapon. Reb Brown, maybe best known as the star of Mattei's STRIKE COMMANDO, is our big action hero and things go fairly predictably with many exploding huts and lots of scenes of walking around in the jungle to some overly peppy soundtrack music. Mid-level Mattei for sure.