On April 18, 2026, Umbrella (AU) is releasing the Blu-ray (Region B) for Naked Weapon, a 2002 action film from acclaimed Hong Kong filmmmaker Tony Ching Siu-Tung (Duel to the Death).
Read the official details below:
When dozens of young women mysteriously vanish across the world, rumours spread about a covert organisation that reshapes kidnapped girls into elite assassins; perfectly trained, ruthlessly efficient, and crafted to serve someone else’s agenda. Among them is Charlene (Maggie Q, Gen-Y Cops, Die Hard 4), whose transformation from ordinary teenager to lethal operative draws the attention of a determined CIA agent searching for the truth behind the disappearances.
As Charlene grapples with a world built on exploitation, control, and forced power, she begins to carve out her own identity within the machine designed to erase it. Her journey becomes not just one of survival, but of reclaiming agency.
The film also stars Almen Pui-Ha Wong (The Accident), Anya Wu (For Bad Boys Only), Daniel Wu (Sky on Fire) and Cheng Pei-Pei (Come Drink With Me).
Features:
- 48-page book of behind-the-scenes material and essays by Michelle Kisner and David Michael Brown
- Custom illustration rigid and slipcase by Chris Malbon aka MELBS
- 8 art cards
- A3 reversible poster featuring new custom art
- Limited edition numbered release
- NEW! Audio Commentary with Filmmaker and Critic Camille Zaurin
- NEW! Double Edged Sword: Critic and Historian Alexandra Heller-Nicholas on Girl Power and Naked Weapon
- The Naked Truth: The Making of Naked Weapon
- Candid Camera: Behind-The-Scenes
- A Day in the Life of Maggie Q
- Deadly China Doll: An Interview with Actor Anya Wu
- Dark Avenger: An Interview with Actor Andrew Lin
- The Black Widow: An Interview with Actor Almen Wong
- Young and Dangerous: An Interview with Actor Monica Lo
- Photo Gallery
- Trailer
Watch the Trailer:
I’m down for this one!
Looks like most of the extras from the HKL release carried over here. Naked Weapon has always been a guilty pleasure for me. Fun, over the top action scenes, and Maggie Q had good chemistry with Daniel Wu, but other parts were lacking. For being a spiritual successor to Naked Killer, it barely qualified as a Category IIB with its almost PG-13 looking shootings and stabbings.
I still revisit this movie, but felt like it could have been more.
Yep, I’m also an unashamed fan of this one. It came out in that distinctive post-Matrix era when everyone was attempting the bullet time effect, and at the time I found its rudimentary use in the ship yard set final fight to be really cool – although several hundreds of kung-fu movies later I now recognize the cheesiness of it all (Maggie Q balancing on Andrew Lin’s head with one foot), I still enjoy how bombastic it all is. For such a trashy early 2000’s HK flick, it’s funny that it received the Platinum Edition treatment from HKL, and now this deluxe edition from Umbrella!
The trashiness of this movie was really imbalanced. It’s still not a movie one would watch with their mother, but we have a movie that seemingly plays it safe with partial nudity, and how the scenes with Maggie Q and Anya Wu come off as suggestive even though the characters never consummate their relationship, yet there’s also a completely unnecessary rape scene that served no purpose. (The fact that Maggie Q was crying in the behind the scenes segment makes it worse)
I prefer my trashy movies to be fun and where the nihilism isn’t played around with.
It also works as the prequel to Maggie Q’s Nikita TV show. I’m also a fan of this because it is so camp and silly. When this was around the same time as Charlies Angels and So Close I thought we were going to get a Girls with Guns revival