- published: 17 Jun 2013
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Girls with guns is a sub-genre of action films and animation, often Asian films and anime, that portray a strong female protagonist who makes use of firearms to defend against or attack a group of antagonists.[citation needed] The genre may typically involves gun-play, stunts and martial arts action.[citation needed]
The genre started in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Asia.[citation needed]Suzuki Seijun's 1958 film Underworld Beauty is an early example of a "girls with guns" film out of Japan. In the 1966, Hong Kong actress Cheng Pei-pei starred in the Shaw Brothers Studio film Come Drink with Me, an early Chinese film of the genre. Rival Hong Kong studio, Golden Harvest Studios, had their own female fighter, Angela Mao Ying, who also helped popularize the trend in Asia.
In the early 1980s, two new actresses began to ascend in the Hong Kong action world: Michelle Yeoh and martial artist Cynthia Rothrock. They starred in the Corey Yuen directed film Yes Madam, (aka In the Line of Duty 2), which achieved commercial success.[citation needed] In the mid 1980s, many martial arts and action movies[which?] out of Japan and Hong Kong featured females either in leading or secondary roles that involved indulgent amounts of action and violence. Some well known actresses of this time period were Jade Leung, Yukari Oshima, Cynthia Khan and Joyce Godenzi.
I'll tell you now
And I won't tell you twice
Where, when, and how
I got some bad advice
I never thought I could handle
A girl with guns
And let me tell ya
You can bet that I'm not the only one (oh no...)
Stand tall, don't think small
Don't get your back against the wall
Shoot straight, I can't wait
Aim for the heart and fire away (No! )
I've come around
I understand today
She's the target now
I'm gonna have my way
Everybody says,
"Don't go messing with a girl with guns"
They don't need you
They couldn't love you
They couldn't be any fun (Noooo)
Stand tall, don't think small
Don't get your back against the wall
Shoot straight, don't wait
To Fire away...
An innocent bystander
Who forgets to look both ways
Who never tries to understand her
Won't feel the heat 'til it's too late (So I tell you)
Stand tall, don't think small
Don't get your back against the wall
Shoot straight, don't wait
To fire away (no, no, no)
Stand tall, don't think small
Don't get your back against the wall (aaahhh...)
Shoot straight, I can't wait
Aim for the heart and fire away (uhhhhh...)
Stand tall, don't think small
Don't get your back against the wall (I'll tell ya')
Shoot straight, Don't wait
To fire... away...
(All right! )
(Give it to me! )
(Come on! )
(Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh...! )