A promotional poster for Angela Mao Ying’s Lady Whirlwind, which was marketed in the US as Deep Thrust. US distributors oversold or distorted martial arts movie plots on posters.
Why US distributors used sex to sell martial arts movies, and some of the other twists on kung fu film posters
When adult-film theatres in American cities had to stop showing X-rated porn they switched to martial arts movies, but sexed up their plots on posters
That wasn’t the only twist distributors practised – movies were creatively called sequels or titles changed to appeal to African-Americans or fans of Bruce Lee
