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* ArcherArchetype: Wu is exceptionally skilled with a bow and arrow, using them to ambush and kill machine-gun wielding mooks during his action scenes.
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* InASingleBound: Wang Pan can somehow use his ''qi'' powers to make him literally float just by jumping, allowing him to beat down Lori and Wu with ease. Taking him down evemtually takes quite some effort.
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* ThrowDownTheBomblet: In the climatic final battle, when Wang Pan witnessed his men getting beten up by Lori with ease, he ends up resorting to flinging dy amitea at her in a desperate attempt to take her down. Lori managed to turn this back against him, see DeadlyDodging.
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* ThrowDownTheBomblet: In the climatic final battle, when Wang Pan witnessed his men getting beten beaten up by Lori with ease, he ends up resorting to flinging dy amitea dynamites at her in a desperate attempt to take her down. Lori managed to turn this back against him, see DeadlyDodging.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: The fate of Wang Pan, when Lori kicks him backwards into a horizontal wooden beam held by Wu]].
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** Wu fighting the blind henchwoman ends with Wu [[HoistByHisOwnPetard impaling her using her own cane]].
** [[spoiler: The fate of Wang Pan, when Lori kicks him backwards into a horizontal wooden beam held by Wu]].
** Wu fighting the blind henchwoman ends with Wu [[HoistByHisOwnPetard impaling her using her own cane]].
** [[spoiler: The fate of Wang Pan, when Lori kicks him backwards into a horizontal wooden beam held by Wu]].
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* WireFu: Used in Wang Pan's fights to make him literally fly across the screen to beat up Lori and Wu.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The above pictured poster (from the re-release) features Lori and Wu (Oshima and Alex) in leather motorcycle jackets, which they were never seen wearing in the film. Also the poster is obviously taken when Alex Fong is older, probably from the 2000s, since in the film itself he doesn’t sport a massive beard like above. Not to mention the burning, explosive background suggesting the movie would be loaded with explosive action (which it '''isn’t''').
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The above pictured poster (from the re-release) features Lori and Wu (Oshima and Alex) in leather motorcycle jackets, which they were never seen wearing in the film. Also the poster is obviously taken when Alex Fong is older, probably from the 2000s, since in the film itself he doesn’t sport a massive beard like above. Not to mention the burning, explosive exploding background suggesting the movie would be loaded with explosive action (which it '''isn’t''').
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* GiantMook: Boss Wang Pan’s number two, a huge, balding henchman who favors throwing dynamites and fights Lori one-on-one in a DavidVsGoliath battle.
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* GiantMook: Boss Wang Pan’s number two, a huge, [[BaldOfEvil balding henchman henchman]] who favors throwing dynamites and fights Lori one-on-one in a DavidVsGoliath battle.
* InASingleBound: Wang Pan can somehow use his ''qi'' powers to make him literally float just by jumping, allowing him to beat down Lori and Wu with ease. Taking him down evemtually takes quite some effort.
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* SinisterShades: On the Blind henchwoman. She's never seen without them.
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''Angel of Vengeance'' is a 1993 ExploitationFilm starring Creator/YukariOshima and Creator/AlexFong.
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* DeadlyDodging: A variant in the final fight; after Lori beats up several mooks in the quarry leaving half a dozen of them lying on the floor, semi-groaning or inconscious, the GiantMook then tries to assault Lori with his dynamites. Lori dodges, causing most of the mooks she beat up earlier to get caught in the blast.
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* PunchPunchPunchOhOh: In their first confrontation scene, Lori fights the bald GiantMook and repeatedly tries hitting him in the gut, only for him to smirk, grab her and flip her aside. She gets better in their rematch in the climatic final battle.
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* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: In their first confrontation scene, Lori fights the bald GiantMook and repeatedly tries hitting him in the gut, only for him to smirk, grab her and flip her aside. She gets better in their rematch in the climatic final battle.
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[[caption-width-right:350:(sees tagline) Strange, I don't remember ''Film/HardBoiled'' having so much explicit rape in it...]]
''Angel of Vengeance'' is a 1993 ExploitationFilm starring Creator/YukariOshima and Creator/AlexFong.
Both a revenge thriller and whorehouse drama at the same time, Yukari Oshima stars as Lori, a triad enforcer and fighter who must bust her sister Betty after she was sold to a prostitution ring. Unfortunately for the audience, despite having ActionGirl icon Oshima as the titular Angel, the movie decides to focus on Betty's fate as a prostitute and being pimped out to clients, while Lori tries her best to expose the syndicate's activities with the help of a cop, Inspector Wu (Alex), culminating into a fight scene against the syndicate's enforcers. Which is too little, and too late, because all that happens in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Can be considered a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Brave Young Girls'', another whorehouse drama also starring Oshima, although in the other movie Oshima isn't related to the prostitute characters.
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!!Troping of Vengeance:
* ActionGirl: Lori, the titular Angel. Played by Yukari Oshima who allegedly spends two weeks on the set, given she was busy filming a bunch of other action movies the same time she’s making this film (see below).
* AdvertisedExtra: In a way, Yukari Oshima’s character, Lori, is focused in the posters, trailers, DVD covers and promotional materials, to the point of having the movie’s title referring to her character, but she was pushed to the sidelines for most of the movie and doesn’t get to have any action scenes (bar a really short ActionPrologue) until the last 10 minutes.
** The fact that Yukari Oshima made '''9''' movies in 1993, including ''Film/LethalPanther'', ''Film/AngelTerminators'', ''Film/BeautyInvestigator'', ''Film/TheAvengingQuartet'', and ''Film/SuperCop2'' might have something to do with it.
* ArcherArchetype: Wu is exceptionally skilled with a bow and arrow, using them to ambush and kill machine-gun wielding mooks during his action scenes.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The movie opens with a gang war, followed by Lori marching up to the mansion of a triad kingpin demanding for her sister where she beats up a bunch of thugs, before the opening credits segues into the film… which is then revealed to be a slow-paced whorehouse drama with barely any action for most of the second and third act. Thankfully the last ten minutes of the movie rectifies that mistake.
* BlatantLies: The movie’s very tagline, which declares it to be a "hard-hitting action-crime thriller in the vein of ''Film/HardBoiled'' and ''Film/NakedKiller'' ". The movie isn’t a thriller, contains less action than the first 12 minutes of ''Hard Boiled'', its gratuitous nudity isn’t played for fanservice unlike ''Naked Killer'' and the film itself is mostly a gritty, tedious drama with unfunny comedy and tasteless rape scenes peppered in-between as {{Filler}}.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Lori and Wu both ends up bleeding from the corner of their mouth after barely escaping getting blasted by flung dynamites during the rock quarry fight.
*CatchAndReturn: A variation; in the climatic rock quarry fight, the huge balding GiantMook tries to kill Wu and Lori by flinging dynamites at them, but Lori managed to kick one of the flung dynamites back which blows up a handful of mooks.
* CaneFu: Used by the henchwoman, who beats up Wu with her cane and tries doing the same to Lori.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The above pictured poster (from the re-release) features Lori and Wu (Oshima and Alex) in leather motorcycle jackets, which they were never seen wearing in the film. Also the poster is obviously taken when Alex Fong is older, probably from the 2000s, since in the film itself he doesn’t sport a massive beard like above. Not to mention the burning, explosive background suggesting the movie would be loaded with explosive action (which it '''isn’t''').
* DisneyDeath: The bald GiantMook, who ends up getting kicked into a pier by Lori and somehow dying after falling in water (he’s not shown for the rest of the movie after taking the plunge, and given he’s a henchman with quite a prominent role in the movie it’s odd that he somehow disappears just like that. Or maybe he’s [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the mouse]]).
* FanDisservice: Hmm… where to start? The sub-plot about a prostitution ring pimping whores to customers? Barely-clothed women being abused physically and sexually by men against their will? A man’s naked ass shown while forcing himself against a woman?
* GiantMook: Boss Wang Pan’s number two, a huge, balding henchman who favors throwing dynamites and fights Lori one-on-one in a DavidVsGoliath battle.
* GratuitousRape: Roughly once every ten minutes. Involving either Betty, or random extras playing prostitutes.
* HandicappedBadass: The blind henchwoman serving Wang Pan. Also a BlindWeaponmaster given her skills with her cane.
* HumanPincushion: In the opening gang war scene, a bunch of triads inexplicably had bows and arrows with them, which they then use to nail opposing gangsters on the spot with arrows.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: The fate of Wang Pan, when Lori kicks him backwards into a horizontal wooden beam held by Wu]].
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Discussed by one of the mooks working for the prostitution ring, regarding the hookers they’re about to pimp out to their clients.
* PunchPunchPunchOhOh: In their first confrontation scene, Lori fights the bald GiantMook and repeatedly tries hitting him in the gut, only for him to smirk, grab her and flip her aside. She gets better in their rematch in the climatic final battle.
*RapeAsDrama: The movie attempts this, but given the frequency of its occurrence throughout the film’s running time (to the point of being an unfunny RunningGag) it clearly ''didn’t'' work.
* RecycledSoundtrack: The movie literally doesn't have a ''single'' piece of original music.
** The opening credits literally lifts the score from the ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' OVA.
** Some of the film’s numerous rape scenes are peppered with the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' and ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' soundtrack in the background.
** The jazzy theme from ''Film/HardBoiled'' shows up more than once as well.
* RedLightDistrict: The main setting of the film, since the villains are running [[BandOfBrothels an illegal prostitution ring]] and Lori is trying to bust her sister out from their syndicate.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Lori is the titular [[ProtagonistTitle Angel of Vengeance]], she spends much of the film in the sidelines investigating the prostitution ring and only gets two action scenes for herself, while most of the film focuses more on Lori’s sister Betty.
* ShoutOut: One of the MookLieutenant Lori fights has a shocking wave of flowing white hair, which makes him look quite like Eunuch Tsao from the previous year’s ''Film/NewDragonInn''.
* {{Undercrank}}: Used in most of the fight scenes, and it shows. The scene with the cane-wielding henchwoman is particularly (and unintentionally) hilarious.
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[[caption-width-right:350:(sees tagline) Strange, I don't remember ''Film/HardBoiled'' having so much explicit rape in it...]]
''Angel of Vengeance'' is a 1993 ExploitationFilm starring Creator/YukariOshima and Creator/AlexFong.
Both a revenge thriller and whorehouse drama at the same time, Yukari Oshima stars as Lori, a triad enforcer and fighter who must bust her sister Betty after she was sold to a prostitution ring. Unfortunately for the audience, despite having ActionGirl icon Oshima as the titular Angel, the movie decides to focus on Betty's fate as a prostitute and being pimped out to clients, while Lori tries her best to expose the syndicate's activities with the help of a cop, Inspector Wu (Alex), culminating into a fight scene against the syndicate's enforcers. Which is too little, and too late, because all that happens in the last 10 minutes of the movie.
Can be considered a SpiritualSuccessor to ''Brave Young Girls'', another whorehouse drama also starring Oshima, although in the other movie Oshima isn't related to the prostitute characters.
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!!Troping of Vengeance:
* ActionGirl: Lori, the titular Angel. Played by Yukari Oshima who allegedly spends two weeks on the set, given she was busy filming a bunch of other action movies the same time she’s making this film (see below).
* AdvertisedExtra: In a way, Yukari Oshima’s character, Lori, is focused in the posters, trailers, DVD covers and promotional materials, to the point of having the movie’s title referring to her character, but she was pushed to the sidelines for most of the movie and doesn’t get to have any action scenes (bar a really short ActionPrologue) until the last 10 minutes.
** The fact that Yukari Oshima made '''9''' movies in 1993, including ''Film/LethalPanther'', ''Film/AngelTerminators'', ''Film/BeautyInvestigator'', ''Film/TheAvengingQuartet'', and ''Film/SuperCop2'' might have something to do with it.
* ArcherArchetype: Wu is exceptionally skilled with a bow and arrow, using them to ambush and kill machine-gun wielding mooks during his action scenes.
* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The movie opens with a gang war, followed by Lori marching up to the mansion of a triad kingpin demanding for her sister where she beats up a bunch of thugs, before the opening credits segues into the film… which is then revealed to be a slow-paced whorehouse drama with barely any action for most of the second and third act. Thankfully the last ten minutes of the movie rectifies that mistake.
* BlatantLies: The movie’s very tagline, which declares it to be a "hard-hitting action-crime thriller in the vein of ''Film/HardBoiled'' and ''Film/NakedKiller'' ". The movie isn’t a thriller, contains less action than the first 12 minutes of ''Hard Boiled'', its gratuitous nudity isn’t played for fanservice unlike ''Naked Killer'' and the film itself is mostly a gritty, tedious drama with unfunny comedy and tasteless rape scenes peppered in-between as {{Filler}}.
* BloodFromTheMouth: Lori and Wu both ends up bleeding from the corner of their mouth after barely escaping getting blasted by flung dynamites during the rock quarry fight.
*CatchAndReturn: A variation; in the climatic rock quarry fight, the huge balding GiantMook tries to kill Wu and Lori by flinging dynamites at them, but Lori managed to kick one of the flung dynamites back which blows up a handful of mooks.
* CaneFu: Used by the henchwoman, who beats up Wu with her cane and tries doing the same to Lori.
* CoversAlwaysLie: The above pictured poster (from the re-release) features Lori and Wu (Oshima and Alex) in leather motorcycle jackets, which they were never seen wearing in the film. Also the poster is obviously taken when Alex Fong is older, probably from the 2000s, since in the film itself he doesn’t sport a massive beard like above. Not to mention the burning, explosive background suggesting the movie would be loaded with explosive action (which it '''isn’t''').
* DisneyDeath: The bald GiantMook, who ends up getting kicked into a pier by Lori and somehow dying after falling in water (he’s not shown for the rest of the movie after taking the plunge, and given he’s a henchman with quite a prominent role in the movie it’s odd that he somehow disappears just like that. Or maybe he’s [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse the mouse]]).
* FanDisservice: Hmm… where to start? The sub-plot about a prostitution ring pimping whores to customers? Barely-clothed women being abused physically and sexually by men against their will? A man’s naked ass shown while forcing himself against a woman?
* GiantMook: Boss Wang Pan’s number two, a huge, balding henchman who favors throwing dynamites and fights Lori one-on-one in a DavidVsGoliath battle.
* GratuitousRape: Roughly once every ten minutes. Involving either Betty, or random extras playing prostitutes.
* HandicappedBadass: The blind henchwoman serving Wang Pan. Also a BlindWeaponmaster given her skills with her cane.
* HumanPincushion: In the opening gang war scene, a bunch of triads inexplicably had bows and arrows with them, which they then use to nail opposing gangsters on the spot with arrows.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: The fate of Wang Pan, when Lori kicks him backwards into a horizontal wooden beam held by Wu]].
* AManIsAlwaysEager: Discussed by one of the mooks working for the prostitution ring, regarding the hookers they’re about to pimp out to their clients.
* PunchPunchPunchOhOh: In their first confrontation scene, Lori fights the bald GiantMook and repeatedly tries hitting him in the gut, only for him to smirk, grab her and flip her aside. She gets better in their rematch in the climatic final battle.
*RapeAsDrama: The movie attempts this, but given the frequency of its occurrence throughout the film’s running time (to the point of being an unfunny RunningGag) it clearly ''didn’t'' work.
* RecycledSoundtrack: The movie literally doesn't have a ''single'' piece of original music.
** The opening credits literally lifts the score from the ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' OVA.
** Some of the film’s numerous rape scenes are peppered with the ''Franchise/{{Halloween}}'' and ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' soundtrack in the background.
** The jazzy theme from ''Film/HardBoiled'' shows up more than once as well.
* RedLightDistrict: The main setting of the film, since the villains are running [[BandOfBrothels an illegal prostitution ring]] and Lori is trying to bust her sister out from their syndicate.
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: While Lori is the titular [[ProtagonistTitle Angel of Vengeance]], she spends much of the film in the sidelines investigating the prostitution ring and only gets two action scenes for herself, while most of the film focuses more on Lori’s sister Betty.
* ShoutOut: One of the MookLieutenant Lori fights has a shocking wave of flowing white hair, which makes him look quite like Eunuch Tsao from the previous year’s ''Film/NewDragonInn''.
* {{Undercrank}}: Used in most of the fight scenes, and it shows. The scene with the cane-wielding henchwoman is particularly (and unintentionally) hilarious.
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