Females Fighting
AKA: Girls With Guns, Skirts Of Fury, Battling Babes, Butt-Kicking Babes, Ass-Kicking Chicks, Action Chicks, Action Heroines, Female Assassin, Female Killer, Female Warrior, Female Martial Artist, Girl Fighter, Chick Fight, Female-Female Fight, Female-Male Fight, Femmes Fatales
This list is for the movies, TV, and anime I recommend that have females fighting (not exclusively females fighting each other) as a central theme. I'm including series with fights using magical or psychic powers but will try to note the ones that are exclusively that. There's a fairly wide range (except for extreme horror/gore like Elfen Lied, The Machine Girl, etc., which I avoid). Sorted by my rating (those toward the bottom of the list are borderline and could be skipped without missing much). A better version of this list with images and trailers is here.
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- DirectorCorey YuenStarsShu QiWei ZhaoKaren MokA conflict of interest between two high-kicking assassin sisters is complicated as they're pursued by the criminals who hired them and an equally high-kicking female cop.Shu Qi, Zhao Wei, Karen Mok
Stars' real voices are in Mandarin audio track. - DirectorClarence FokStarsChingmy YauSimon YamCarrie NgA young woman is trained by a martial arts specialist to become a professional assassin.Chingmy Yau, Carrie Ng
UK DVD is uncut and has original Cantonese audio and director commentary. - DirectorKin-Kwok LaiStanley Wing SiuStarsCynthia KhanMoon LeeEric TsangIn this action packed Hong Kong Yes Madam installment two friends in the police force are in love with the same man. After a certain incident one of them goes crazy and does everything she can to kill her former friend.Moon Lee, Cynthia Khan
Available on VCD only or there was a fan restored version I haven't tried. - DirectorKenta FukasakuStarsAya MatsuuraRika IshikawaErika MiyoshiRecruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.Aya Matsuura
UK DVD has extra bonus features. - DirectorWilson YipStarsFrancis NgAndy OnLei LiuA teenage girl is given the martial arts skills of The White Dragon. When she discovers that the famed assassin, Chicken Feathers, is planning to kill her beloved prince, she seeks to prevent him.Cecilia Cheung
- DirectorAndrew LauStarsLeon LaiAsaka SetoTerence YinSam, a Hong Kong cop, has busted crime lord Night. Ann, Sam's girlfriend, is the prosecuting witness. Night is jailed for five years. On a trip to Paris, Ann is killed by an assassin. Sam quits the force and two years later, runs a bar on Lamma Island with his uncles. One day, a Japanese tourist who looks exactly like Ann arrives. Sam and the lady soon fall in love. However, that love is shortened when she holds a dark past and after a successful appeal, Night is back and out for revenge.Asaka Seto
- DirectorShûsuke KanekoStarsAkiko YadaHideaki ItôRyûji HaradaA woman with the power to start fires with her mind searches for revenge for the murder of her friend by men above the law.Akiko Yada
Psychic-power-centric - DirectorStephen FungStarsAnthony Chau-Sang WongGillian ChungStephen FungA former secret agent's past catches up to him, and his two children have to rescue him before it's too late.Gillian Chung, Charlene Choi
Blu-ray - DirectorAng LeeStarsChow Yun-FatMichelle YeohZiyi ZhangA young Chinese warrior steals a sword from a famed swordsman and then escapes into a world of romantic adventure with a mysterious man in the frontier of the nation.Michelle Yeoh, Zhang Ziyi
Blu-ray - DirectorPrachya PinkaewStarsJeeJa YaninHiroshi AbePongpat WachirabunjongAn autistic girl with powerful martial art skills looks to settle her ailing mother's debts by seeking out the ruthless gangs that owe her family money.Jeeja Yanin
UK Blu-ray and DVD have more subtitled extras than US versions. - DirectorStanley TongStarsJackie ChanMichelle YeohMaggie CheungA Hong Kong detective teams up with his female Red Chinese counterpart to stop a Chinese drug czar.Michelle Yeoh
- DirectorStanley Wing SiuStarsCynthia KhanMoon LeeYukari ÔshimaA female Chinese cop teams up with a lady kung-fu master to stop two female Japanese gangsters from stealing a valuable painting.Moon Lee, Cynthia Khan, Yukari Oshima, Michiko Nishiwaki
- DirectorTeresa WooStarsHideki SaijôAlex FongMoon LeeA crimefighting organization called the Angels goes up against a drug-smuggling ring headed by a female kung-fu killer.Moon Lee, Elaine Lui
aka "Iron Angels" in US - CreatorRyôe TsukimuraStarsHouko KuwashimaKotono MitsuishiShelley Calene-BlackTwo beautiful female assassins travel the world accepting assignments to kill various culprits, and at the same time, having deadly traps set against them by their own employer.
- CreatorGen UrobuchiStarsMiyu IrinoNewton PittmanAyahi TakagakiThe story of two brainwashed assassins, Ein and Zwei, who struggle to regain their memories as they work for the Inferno crime syndicate.
- StarsCaitlynne MedrekCarol-Anne DayJordan SchartnerA group a school girls discover that they have been given the ability to materialize weapons and control robotic beasts called Children to stop an evil organization from their plans of domination. Meanwhile, a darker plot thickens.
- StarsMika KikuchiKatsuyuki KonishiAkira IshidaMy-Otome's story takes place in the distant future on the planet Earl, colonized by immigrants from Earth centuries ago. "Old technology" has survived in the form of nanomachines that allow female virgins to take the role of Meister Otomes - bodyguards, attendants and warriors that serve the royalty of various kingdoms. Arika Yumemiya has come to Windbloom Kingdom in search of her mother, whom Arika knows was an Otome. On her arrival she meets the top Coral Otome student, Nina Wáng, and Windbloom's heir to the throne, Mashiro Blan de Windbloom. The series follows Arika's progress as a student at Garderobe Academy and the machinations of those desiring the destructive power of the old technology for themselves.
- StarsMegan HollingsheadDorothy Elias-FahnMikako TakahashiRushuna is a blonde and very beautiful Senshi (gun expert) that travels through the world with one purpose. Which is to make the world a peaceful place by, instead of fighting with weapons, taking away the people's will to fight by giving them a smile. Although she doesn't want to fight, she is forced to, and shows amazing gun skills. In this journey she meets Yajirou, a mercenary that uses a sword to fight and joins her on her journey.
- CreatorShûkô MuraseStarsAkeno WatanabeSteve BlumKari WahlgrenWitches exist, and it is the mysterious organization STNJ's job to hunt them down. Robin is a recent trainee who joins up, and begins unraveling the secrets of both the witches and STNJ.Magical-power-centric
- StarsYûko KaidaMasumi AsanoSatoshi HinoSeven rival high schools battle each other for victory and total supremacy. The students will do what ever it takes to come out on top and see their school leading the way.
- CreatorYasuomi UmetsuStarsTomoko KotaniTakumi YamazakiTaichirô HirokawaA young woman and her mercenary for hire team run afoul of a violent mob boss and his sociopath daughter.Followed by TV series Mezzo DSA (2003)
- CreatorYasuomi UmetsuStarsLuci ChristianAndy McAvinJason DouglasMikura and her friends are back for more danger then ever in these 13 action packed episodes.
- CreatorJosh FriedmanStarsLena HeadeyThomas DekkerSummer GlauSet after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from the government, as they plot to destroy the computer network, Skynet, in hopes of preventing Armageddon.Summer Glau
- StarsYumi TômaKira Vincent-DavisJuri IhataNajica Hiragi spends her days dreaming up the most alluring scents known to man... and her nights fighting the world's criminal element as special agent for CRI.
- CreatorNaoko TakeuchiStarsJun MasuoMiyû SawaiRika IzumiLive-action series which is an original re-telling of the original Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon manga and anime series.