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Seriously, the photo there shows Angela Mao as she actually appears in THE BROKEN OATH. That's pretty much how she dressed in all her movies, just face and hands showing. Once or twice, she had bare arms and there's one modern film where she's wearing a polo shirt and slacks -- tight enough to make her fans cheer up, but still nothing like her presentation in newspaper ads. This kind of revisionism is nothing new of course; actors have often seen their faces pasted atop buff muscular torsos nothing like their own scrawny frames, and nearly every slim actress has blinked at the way her breasts magically doubled in size by the time they appeared in ads or on DVD cases. Nor is that the worst. If every El Cheapo direct-to-video genre movies actually had the action and spectacle and drama promised by the cover art, I'd certainly rent more often than I do. Just as horrendous is the way you'll see a DVD with a big star's face leering out at you, and (despite the fact you don't recognize the title), you pick up the movie. Only later do you find your star appears for five or six minutes in a walk-on role and the movie came from early in his or her career. Probably there is a website devoted to unraveling just this sort of misinformation -- I used to study VIDEO WATCHDOG to get to the truth of the retitlings and hack jobs -- but I am just not dedicated enough to spot a movie, go home and research it and then decide whether to rent it the next day. This is why you should carry a quarter in video stores to flip when deciding whether or not to invest a few bucks into a two hour gamble.