Three women detectives crash a diamond heist before feminism had a name.
The Diamond Gang commits a robbery. The leader Chiu Yee-kong wants to keep the booty and this arouses the suspicion of gang member Tai-wai. The police does not have a clue and thus invite Wong Ngung, Heung Ad and Wu Ngar for help. Kong is in accomplice with his third concubine. They order someone to steal the diamond and leave Wong's symbol. Wai turns his attention on Wong. Wong, Ad and Wu are not afraid of Wai and they throw him out. They sneak in Kong's apartment to investigate. Kong's second concubine is mad at Kong for neglecting her. She tells Wong the truth but gets killed. Kong's people surround Wong, Ad and Wu. Each of the three faces their enemy. Ad is tortured by Wai. Wong and Wu arrive in time and save her. One of Kong's people tells Wai the truth. Wai immediately attacks Kong. Wong, Ad, Wu and the police arrive at Kong's headquarter to arrest the gangsters. Wai is arrested but Kong has escaped. The diamonds are found. The inspector makes Wong, Ad and Wu as partners.
Acting
Yu So-Chau's eyebrow-raise of justice
Production
That one apartment set working overtime
Costume
Three detectives, infinite silk qipao slay
Director
Ren Peng-Nian
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This emerged from Hong Kong's 1960s Cantonese cinema boom, when studios rushed out genre films to compete with Mandarin productions. The 'female detective' trope here borrows from Western noir while embedding it in local concubinage dynamics.
Yu So-Chau was a Peking opera star who transitioned to film—her physicality in the fight scenes against Sek Kin (later famous as the villain in Enter the Dragon) came from years of stage combat training.
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