Here's Yu So Chow, Hong Kong's Queen of Martial Arts, decked out as a cowgirl in Bloodbath at Golden Sand Bay (1952), a Western flavored kung fu film that I'm dying to see. It wasn't the only time that Miss Yu donned a cowboy hat and packed a pair of pistols. Her very fist film, shot in Suzhou in 1949, was called Double Pistol Heroine.
Yu So Chow as the "Double Pistol Heroine"
And while we're on the subject of the lovely Miss Yu, here are some pics I've been meaning to post for quite some time. The first comes from Oldflames: a lovely shot of Yu So Chow looking very much like a pirate queen. Can't you picture her armed with a cutlass in each hand?
Finally, here's a recent photo that SpyMonkey kindly sent me, showing Yu So Chow elegantly, yet funkily, dressed during her trip to Hong Kong last November for the 50th anniversary of the Hong Kong–China Opera Institute, the training school founded by her father Master Yu Jim-yuen. (You might have heard of some of its students ... like Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao.)
Anyway, it's pretty remarkable seeing these last two photos side by side. Despite the passage of nearly 60 years, Yu So Chow still has the same cool style. I especially love her matching green nail polish!
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