We have 3 entries that look very similar:
Ye Ying Tu Ji (1990)
Tu Ji Chu Nv Dao (1982)
Escape of the Female Prisoner (1984)
All 3 star Lu I-Chan and Richard Cui. If we assume that Lung Siu-Wa (???) in "Escape" is just a typing mistake of Long Shao-Hua's (???) Chinese name, then all of them also star Long Shao-Hua.
"Ye ying tu ji" and "Tu Ji Chu Nv Dao"
In August 2011 I created the page for "Ye ying tu ji" based on the poster I found and the data from Taiwan film archives (here and here), so cast and crew credits in "Ye ying tu ji" can be considered as reliable. Only the year seems to be questionable, because according to the movie, it should be made somewhere in 1981-1985. But for some reason it is listed in Taiwan film archive under 1990.
In August 2014 heinz Germany created page for "Tu Ji Chu Nv Dao", that has more extensive cast list - Chang Yu-Lan, Chou Ying-Ti and unidentified Zhen Xiu-Li (???) that might be the typing mistake of Chinese name of Yin Su-Li (???) - that also stars in "Ye ying tu ji")
"Ye ying tu ji" and "Tu Ji Chu Nv Dao" are the same movie.
TU JI CHU NV DAO (?????):
YE YING TU JI (????):
The whole movie is available online here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rbwc1MdpH4 under English title "Captive Commandos" - but I don't think we should add this title to DB, because, although it appears onscreen, this is, probably, the title given by the uploader of the video. Also, unfortunately, this copy doesn't have any credits.
Other English title - "Assault Virgin Island" can be seen here:
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but this cover is made by FLKcinema website, that sells bootleg copies of rare HK and Taiwan movies, and sometimes they invent new titles for the movies. So I'm not sure if we should add this English title as well.
"Escape of the female prisoner"
"Escape" page has many titles and aliases. I couldn't find anything useful about any of these titles, except many sites that just copied data about that movie from HKMDB.
In July 2008 Young Master created the page for "Escape of the Female Prisoner" from an unknown source, giving it 1984 as an estimated year.
In August 2008 john_larocque noted that there is a movie that can be added to DB from a Yesasia shop page - that was listed there under the Chinese title "?????" and English title "Escape at dawn" (but keep in mind that many times Yesasia were inventing their own English titles, if it wasn't listed on the cover). Here is the page, but the image or any other data is not available anymore - https://www.yesasia.com/us/escape-at-dawn/1002445981-0-0-0-en/info.html.
Calros noted that this is the same movie that Young Master added, and aliases were added.
Now, I think that probably "Escape" is the same movie as "Ye ying tu ji":
- Both directed by Lin Ying.
- Last actor "credited" in "Escape" - Wong Sui-Cheung (???) is also a writer of "Ye ying tu ji" (so maybe it's a mistake, and he/she is not an actor but only a writer?)
- It can be said that the English title of "Escape" fits the subject of "Ye ying tu ji"
So, in my opinion, all 3 are the same movie and we should merge them, but if we merge them:
1.What year should we give to the movie?
2.What English titles and aliases do we have to keep?
Also! At "Tu Ji Chu Nv Dao" page Yang Tao is credited as Action director. I think it's a mistake, because this is his only credit as an Action director, and he is mostly credited as a Director and Writer
There's a picture of him on the set of the movie, but no explanation what was his job there:
https://blog.xuite.net/dryoungd/twblog/130624936-%E6%8B%8D%E3%80%9D%E7%AA%81%E6%93%8A%E8%99%95%E5%A5%B3%E5%B3%B6%E3%80%9E%E5%9C%A8%E6%B2%99%E7%81%98%E7%82%BA%E7%BE%8E%E5%A5%B3%E8%BA%AB%E6%9D%90%E4%BD%9C%E9%AD%94%E9%AC%BC%E8%A8%93%E7%B7%B4%E3%80%941982%E3%80%95
But he mentions the shooting year as 1982.
By the way, in Taiwan movie archives there are no movies titled "?????" or "??????".
