The film depicts how the young Yue Fei learned martial arts, got his mighty weapon, and romanced his wife. Later he entered the national contest of martial arts, and had to fight his way out of a legion of challengers.
The daily life of ordinary people of Shanghai apartment building: an unemployed person who tries not to lose face by concealing the loss of his job, a singer without an audience, a driver, a teacher, but also the owner of the building and his prodigal son.
Not seen in Hong Kong for many years, A Strange Woman was Li Pingqian's first film at Great Wall Film Studio. Adapted from the play La Tosca by French playwright Victorien Sardou, opera star Xiao Xiangshui (Bai Guang) helps her lover, a revolutionary, to escape from warlords. She finesses with both...