They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong
They Call Her... Cleopatra Wong is a 1978 film from Singapore, directed by Bobby A. Suarez, running 110 minutes. reelscum files it under martial arts.
- Year
- 1978 · 1970s films
- Country
- Singapore
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Director
- Bobby A. Suarez
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- obscure (59/100)
- Also known as
- They Call Her Cleopatra Wong · Female Big Boss
Defined in the glossary: Martial arts
The girls-with-guns spy picture Tarantino keeps name-checking, and rightly.
Bobby A. Suarez built a whole regional action industry out of nothing, and Cleopatra Wong is his calling card. Marrie Lee plays a Singaporean Interpol agent who breaks counterfeiting rings with a shotgun, a crossbow and a very 1978 wardrobe, and the centrepiece is a raid on a monastery full of machine-gun-toting fake monks staged with far more ambition than money. Lee had no martial-arts training and learned the moves on set, which somehow makes the fights land harder rather than softer. Tarantino has cited it repeatedly as a Kill Bill touchstone, and once you watch the yellow-clad woman cut through ranks of henchmen you stop needing him to explain why. Regional pulp with real snap.
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