I originally wrote my review of Chor Yuen's The Black Rose for my website The Lucha Diaries back in November of last year. I then posted a revised version of it on Teleport City's Jet Set Cinema in March, though it ended up getting a bit buried. Now it's been posted as a full feature review over at Teleport City with the addition of a number of screen caps. That's all good with me, because, as far as I'm concerned, the film is a criminally under-recognized (in the West) classic of Hong Kong cinema that is also woefully unavailable, and, as such, it would be impossible for it to be over-hyped or exposed. Check out my full review here.
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