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Girls with guns is a subgenre of action films that portray a female protagonist engaged in shootouts. The genre typically involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action.
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Girls With Guns describes a Sub-Genre of action media that focuses on strong female leads being awesome with firearms. May or may not involve Heroic Bloodshed. It was developed somewhere in the Hong Kong film industry and has since made itself a genre that is often used in anime.
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Girls with guns is a sub-genre of films and animation, especially Hong Kong action films and anime, with a female protagonist in a strong lead role, set in a modern context. The genre involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action. Some of the best known female fighters to Western audiences are Angela Mao Ying, Cheng Pei-pei, Moon Lee, Maggie Q,...
The genre started in the 1960s when then-unknown Cheng Pei-pei starred in the 1966 Shaw Brothers Studio film Come Drink with Me, the first film to combine Hong Kong action cinema with a female as the lead.[citation needed] Cheng followed up her success in this film with Golden Swallow in 1968. Golden Harvest Studios had their own female fighter, Angela Mao Ying, best known to western audiences for playing the ill-fated sister of Bruce Lee's character in Enter the Dragon. She starred in such films as Hapkido, When Taekwondo Strikes and Lady Whirlwind.
In the early 1980s, there was a change in the Hong Kong film industry: movies had bigger budgets, new stars, and new stories.[citation needed] Two new faces appeared around this time: Michelle Yeoh and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock. They starred in the Corey Yuen directed film Yes Madam, AKA In the Line of Duty 2. The movie was a box office hit making Yeoh and Rothrock stars and reviving the "girls with guns" genre. In the mid 1980s many martial arts movies featured a female either as the lead or as the co-star in action.[citation needed]
Actresses Jade Leung, Yukari Oshima, Cynthia Khan and Joyce Godenzi would rise to prominence in similar roles.
American popular culture became fixated by girls with guns in the nineties and they were seen in many media. The genre continued in the 2000s, with movies such as Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, So Close, Naked Weapon, Aeon Flux, and UltraViolet.
The term "girls-with-guns" is also used in reference to anime series such as Bubblegum Crisis, Gall Force, Dirty Pair, Gunsmith Cats, Angel Heart, and Gunslinger Girl, as well as Kōichi Mashimo's trilogy of Noir, Madlax, and El Cazador, and works inspired or influenced by it. Yasuomi Umetsu's works such as Kite , Mezzo Forte, Mezzo DSA, and Kite: L...
•Playgirl (ja:プレイガール (ドラマ)) (Late 1960s action/drama featuring many women with guns)
•The Avengers
•Super sentai (1970s-1980s action/drama)
•Alias
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