Product Details

• Actors: Billy Chow, Fat Chung, Sophia Crawford, Moon Lee, Wai Shum
• Directors: Hsia Hsu
• Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: Chinese, English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tai Seng
• DVD Release Date: October 26, 1999
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6305621454
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #192,132 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Beauty Investigator" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

In order to capture a serial rapist two beautiful policewomen go undercover as club hostesses. However they soon discover that the club owner is actually the head of an arms smuggling syndicate. They decide to take him on alone not knowing that he has discovered their identities & hired an assassin to kill them Studio: Tai Seng Entertainment Release Date: 01/15/2002 Starring: Moon Lee Yukari Oshima Run time: 90 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Lee Jua Nan

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Girl Against Girl Martial Arts Fighting Sequences!, February 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Beauty Investigator (DVD)

Beauty Investigator is a classic film in the genre of martial arts skilled girls with guns. The stars of this film are Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima. Hong Kong film fans should be familiar with both of them. For the uninitiated, Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima are two of the best female HK action film actresses who ever did HK films. They are both very good at martial arts, and they can handle their fight scenes very well. Moon Lee was a dancer who was trained by HK film stunt men in the ways of martial arts film fighting, and she is excellent. She uses good form and technique in all of her movements. Yukari Oshima is classically trained in Karate, and she is also extremely good, utilizing good form and technique as well. And in this film, the two square off for some very satisfying fight sequences.
(Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima also square off again in Kickboxer's Tears, and the fighting in that film is also good, but the full screen format crops off a good deal of the action, making it not as enjoyable to watch as it could've been.)

So for fans of the girls with guns HK film genre, this movie is great fun to watch. The only down side to this film is that it's dubbed, but the dubbing isn't too bad, and the video quality is poor. An earlier review of this film explains this very well. But the saving grace of this film is the content itself, the stars, and the fact that it's in widescreen allows the viewer to fully appreciate the beauty of the action sequences.

I highly recommend this film to fans of Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima, and to fans of HK action films in general. And for those who are unfamiliar with HK action films and the HK girls with guns genre, if you're looking for a different flavor to your action films, give this one a try, you won't be disappointed. And with the very low price tag of this dvd, you'll be getting a great deal. Even if you don't like it, you wonn't have wasted too much of your money, and if you do like it, you'll have gotten a great bargain on a great film!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 2.5, but the woman on woman fights easily give it a 3, June 9, 2006

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This review is from: Beauty Investigator (DVD)

This sub genre never took until ang lee put out Crouching tiger. But I guarantee you that moon lee(iron angels) and yukari Oshima( teh story of Riki-Oh) are better than michelle yeoh and ziyi zhang, it is just a shame they only made poorly shot low budget movies. But just like jet or bruce these 2 make any movie watchable.

The movie itself is pretty freaking dumb, but much more enjoyable storywise than Kickboxer's Tears. They take the more straight up "girls with guns" approach. Not bad, but stupid and funny only at times.

The fights are really the ONLY thing going for it. A VERY good one on one fight between men is it for us guys. The women rule the world in this. The comedy doesn't really appear in any of the fights but worth a rental at least. I would watch it again but only once or twice at the most.

The dvd quality is the same as kickboxer's tear's(more than watchable) but unlike KB T, it is in a widescreened format, nto perefct but you are not really missing anything. Which brings me to my next piont, don't buy this only for billy chow. He has only ONE spectacular battle but it can't even be seen becasue of teh darkness, the rest of the movie you can at least see everything. I have the tai seng english dubbed budget release of this.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars You must buy this video. Moon Lee is incredible., April 30, 1999

By A Customer

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This review is from: Beauty Investigator [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Two policewomen go undercover as club hostesses to catch a serial rapist, but soon find there's more to this case than they've bargained for. Fast-paced, funny, with incredible fight scenes between Moon Lee and Yukari Oshima make this actioner a must see. Once you see Moon Lee you'll be hooked. Not only beautiful but she can also kick butt!

A side note for those who've never heard of Moon Lee or seen any of her movies, Beauty Investigator is a great place to start. It has everything and once you see this hopefully you'll become a fan and want to see more of her work.