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Action heroine Michelle Yeoh burst onto the Hollywood scene in the James
Bond flick Tomorrow Never Dies. Her new fans should pursue her Hong
Kong movies for a fuller dose of the beautiful, dynamic Yeoh--and
Magnificent Warriors, one of her earliest movies, is a good place to start. The
very young Yeoh plays an independent adventuress with a bright yellow
biplane who gets hired by the Chinese government to rescue the kindly but
spineless ruler of a city in Mongolia that's been overrun by the invading
Japanese. Yeoh swings a mean whip against rogue villagers and Japanese
agents, culminating in the entire city battling the gun-wielding Japanese
army with spears and stones. Not a great movie, but even mediocre Hong
Kong movies feature stunts and fights that put Hollywood to shame;
Magnificent Warriors is no exception. Yeoh's background as a dancer lends
an elegance to her high-kicking combat