Producer
성룡이 진원룡(陳元龍)이라는 이름으로 활동하던 시기에 촬영한 초기작. 1979년 금흠 감독에 의해 '조수괴초(刁手怪招, Master with Crack Fingers)'라는 제목으로 재편집본이 만들어졌으며, 국내에도 '조수괴초'로 개봉하였다.
Producer
Centring on the legend of the four ancient Chinese heroines, the film was a novelty for audiences at the time, as the singing performance was in Cantonese and used huangmei operatic rhythms—a popular trend in the 1960s, yet it retained traditional flavours by using operatic luogu percussion in the battle scenes. ‘Movie-fan princess' Connie Chan Po-chu not only sings Cantonese song and huangmei tone solos in the film, she also wows the audience by taking up the doumadanrole for the first time as the Tang dynasty female general Fan Lei-fa, showing off her superb operatic martial skills, together with Shum Chi-wah, inherited from Peking opera master Fen Ju Hua. Yu Kai's weaponry prowess and renowned female comedian Tam Lan-hing cross-dressing as a male general are also brilliant in this gem.
