One of the many temptations that Ho Fan faced in his role as the monk Xuan Zang (see my previous post) was the sexy Lau Leung-Wa, who played one of the spider demons in Cave of the Silken Web (1967) and the prime minister of the Country of Women in The Land of Many Perfumes (1968). Besides those small but memorable roles in Shaw's Monkey King series, she was also unforgettable as the stylish, face-changing villain of Temptress of a Thousand Faces (1968). Lau seems to have been a strong-willed and multi-talented woman: she was a producer, actress, costume designer and furthermore — according to this article from the May 1959 issue of The Happiness Movieland — a "first-rate automobile driver" and a "real Z-bomb"!
BTW, while I knew that her husband Lo Wei directed Bruce Lee's kung-fu debut The Big Boss (1971), I was surprised to discover that it was Lau who negotiated Lee's contract with Golden Harvest.
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