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#11,845 All-time worldwide
#122 1981 releases

Movie profile

Ambitious Kung Fu Girl

1981 · 95 min · Shaw Brothers

Action Adventure
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $320,303
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$128,121

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$192,182

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$35,874

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Ambitious Kung Fu Girl ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #11,845 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1981 releases #122 Release-year chart position of 138 titles Ranked against movies released in 1981. Studio / company #6 Shaw Brothers of 9 titles Position inside the mapped Shaw Brothers movie set. Primary genre #2,835 Action of 2,939 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

#11,842 Winter Sleepers 1997 · $323,041 #11,843 The Cement Garden 1993 · $322,975 #11,844 The Last Waltz 1978 · $321,952 #11,846 TerrorVision 1986 · $320,256 #11,847 Trading Mom 1994 · $319,123 #11,848 Telling Lies in America 1997 · $318,809

Quick answer

How did Ambitious Kung Fu Girl (1981) perform at the box office?

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Ambitious Kung Fu Girl (1981) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $320.3K. In this database it currently ranks #11,845 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #122 among 1981 releases.

Worldwide gross
$320,303
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Spoiled Yuen Si Si, the naive daughter of an affluent merchant, lives her cosseted life dreaming of meeting her idol, the heroic Qin Ge. When her father decides to marry her off, she runs away in search of Qin Ge, with her fiancee in pursuit. What she doesn't realise though is that her kung-fu skills are not what she thinks they are and that the outside world is far less chivalrous that she expected.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Dec 10, 1981
Production
Shaw Brothers
Countries
HK

Related indexes

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Studio / production companyShaw Brothers Release year chart1981 box office Genre chartAction Genre chartAdventure

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1981, Ambitious Kung Fu Girl is positioned in this dataset as a Action, Adventure title from Shaw Brothers. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $320,303. For comparison, it currently sits #11,845 all-time in the current chart set and #122 among 1981 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.