Kawashima Yoshiko

The film tells the life of Kawashima Yoshiko. The woman came from the Manchu house. She was one of the daughters of Prince Su. She was sent to Japan as a child. She was raised there under a new name. She was raped in the household that adopted her. Her life changed after that. She often went about in men’s clothes. She worked as a spy for the Japanese army. She gained influence in the Manchukuo years. She is involved with a high ranking Japanese officer. Her former love is on the other side. The man has become a revolutionary. She chooses to shield him. At the end of the war she is tried and executed. The film gives this as a fictionalised account. Anita Mui Yim-Fong and Andy Lau appear in the ninety six minute film, a Hong Kong production Eddie Fong Ling-Ching finished in 1990.