Her Vengeance

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Her Vengeance
Traditional Chinese 血玫瑰
Jyutping hyut3 mui4 gwai1
Directed byLam Nai-Choi
Written byShirley Woo Suet-Lai
StarringPauline Wong
Production
companies
Golden Harvest Productions
Paragon Films Ltd
Release date
  • 7 October 1988 (1988-10-07)
[1]
Running time
92 minutes (uncut)
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Her Vengeance is a 1988 Hong Kong film directed by Lam Nai-Choi and starring Pauline Wong. It is a remake of the 1973 rape and revenge film Kiss of Death with elements taken from the 1978 American film I Spit On Your Grave . [2]

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Plot

At a Macao nightclub employee Ying (Pauline Wong) inadvertently angers a group of drunken men who follow Wong after her shift has ended and proceed to rape her. After her traumatic ordeal, her blind sister (Elaine Kam) encourages her to seek revenge leading her to ask former-triad Hung (Lam Ching-ying) for help. Hung gives her a job at his lounge as a waiter and helps her find somewhere new to live, but refuses to help her take revenge. A chance encounter with one of her attackers (Shing Fui-On) gives her the opportunity she was waiting for as she begins to hunt them down one by one. [3]

Cast

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  2. "血玫瑰 Her Vengeance (1988)". HKMDB . Retrieved 5 November 2016.
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