Too often, female characters are reduced to sidekicks, damsels, sex objects, and caricatures.

Golden Swallow is the daughter of a local governor.

Shes far more than just the blackly comic relief she initially comes off as.

His weapons look like garbage.

She yells like a barbarian.

His eight-stroke style looks like a young girls dancing etc.

Things only get worse as Koda turns out to be an actual ninja (a disgrace!

She is unladylike, violent, savage and yet ultimately saves everybody with her pure heart and wolfen magic.

Quite frankly, she rocks.

Still, Yeung is fantastic in it and her characters a great one.

Siu-Wai vows deadly revenge on her former lover and forms a band of lady warriors to take him out.

Anything men can do, women can do also… sometimes, even better!

she declares and the rest is ninja history.

Challenge Of The Lady Ninjais typical of Taiwanese grindhouse fare.

Its a bit silly, a bit sleazy and totally crazy.

The source footage here comes from Chester Wongs 1981 thrillerQueen Beeand it integrates into Filmarks ninja nuttiness surprisingly well.

When Robins fiancee gets murdered by the Black Ninja Empire, her sister Jenny gets in on the action.

No one gets renamedCrazy Like A Beein that, which makes this arguably the better version.

The legendary Cynthia Rothrock hit the screen running in Corey Yuens high-octane rompYes, Madam!

(1985) and Hong Kong audiences went mad for her.

The result is an astonishing feat of choreography, of comedy and of Huis incomparable star power.

But whatever Cheng Tai-Nan does, shes an endearing and powerful character youll never forget.

The film is a thoughtful exploration of a womans role in 19th Century Chinese society.

JeeJa Yanins frankly superhuman Muay Thai skills, however, turn Zen into something even more special.