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Honeko is a teenage schoolgirl who is the target of many assassins because her birth father Mr. Jingo is an official who has gone after many gangs, so the bad guys have put a $100 million bounty on her. She, however, knows nothing about any of this, not knowing that she was adopted by her lawyer parents. Mr. Jingo recruits Arakuni Ibuki, a childhood friend of Honeko, to act as her bodyguard, but he is not a terribly accomplished fighter. Fortunately, he soon learns that all of Honeko's classmates are also bodyguards assigned to keep her safe - and to do so without her becoming aware of their activities. The group must somehow find a way to work together to protect Honeko, no matter what may come.

This is a hilarious film complete with awesome amounts of martial arts fighting, strange shadowy characters, an occasional mascot, not one but two love interests - oh, and a dance contest among a number of different schools! Very funny and quite a ride, with great performances and much charm, recommended!

A bookish young man named Tuan Yu (Danny Lee) believes that he doesn't need to learn to fight; his father, the brother of the king, disagrees and Tuan Yu decides to walk about in the world to see if he does need that skill. He soon meets Chung Ling-erh (Chen-Chi Lin), a snake-loving girl, who promises to teach him kung fu if he will teach her to read. In the meantime, Miss Mu (Ni Tien) is a fighter without compare, who always wears a mask and vows to either kill or marry any man who sees her face. The three soon find themselves facing all sorts of danger, not least from the husband of a woman who was having an affair with Tuan Yu's father. They will need to find a red snake, a deadly green toad and a lot of courage to make it through....

This is one of the Shaw Brothers films that makes almost no sense if you try to think about it logically, but is a lot of fun to look at anyway. There's all sorts of mayhem, including a gorilla (or rather, a man in a gorilla suit), bullet-like objects being shot from some characters' fingers, a guy who periodically belches out fire and oh, so much more! This film was rushed out just four or five months after the original "Star Wars" film, which it definitely seeks to emulate in terms of what were then state-of-the-art special effects; and it looks just as silly to modern eyes today as that original "Star Wars" does (I mean that affectionately). Tons of fun!

God and His angels are spending eternity together, Him on His throne and the angels singing and dancing around, but the angels are getting bored and have developed an interest in things like eating, drinking and dancing along with all the singing. Cue the angel who decides to change things and suddenly he's on Earth, along with many other fallen angels; the latter are happy to just sing and dance, but he's interested in meeting with humans and, perhaps, playing with them. Soon he finds a peasant who spies one of the fallen (female) angels, makes a deal to give her to him in return for their daughter later, she falls pregnant, dies in childbirth and the peasant is stuck with the devil who's going to take his daughter in due time. Cue the handsome man who the now-grown daughter spies and loves, much mayhem ensues and eventually true love prevails....

Did I mention that this is a musical? *No* dialogue, everything is sung. And it's Soviet Lithuania, a very different time and place. There are, perhaps, some folk elements (I don't know Lithuanian folklore) but mostly this is a fairly bad ripoff of "Jesus Christ Superstar," which was some 8 or 9 years earlier if memory serves. Gediminas Girvainis plays the devil here, and he's delightful - very prancy and gleeful, I'd love to see him in anything else. But the love object is usually brilliantly blonde (but sometimes brunette) with a winning smile (but sometimes discoloured front teeth) and the suitor (who looks like Richard Chamberlain I'd swear) is variably sullen and ecstatic, but seems to give up whenever a bit of fog (courtesy of the devil) impedes his progress toward her home.

As an artifact of a time and place, this is quite interesting. As a movie, however, it's pretty awful; at something like 85 minutes, it could have been more impactful at 60. Still, I'm glad I saw it if only for the fact that I can now say I've seen a Soviet Lithuanian musical!