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Possibly the earliest extant Chinese martial arts film, Red Heroine shows the genre not only goes back to the silent era, but that the woman warrior was striking for justice for her sisters even then. The film was so titled to reflect the original red tinting of the woman warrior’s costume, and is an example of the shenguai wuxiapian, the supernatural martial arts subgenre that Bruce Lee’s more “realistic” combat shoved aside for a time.