Wonder Woman is great, but it is not perfect. Then again, if there were other female superhero movies, maybe it wouldn’t have to be.

While chock-full of heartfelt moments and the unmistakably quick-witted humor so characteristic of its protagonist, the implications of the story are arguably more powerful than the film itself.

Come Drink subsumes the female knight-errant under the male savior while not addressing issues of sexism, while Crouching Tiger directly challenges patriarchal norms and creates feminist discourse, both being reflective of their respective sociohistorical contexts of feminism.

Kurosawa focuses on the boundary between the samurai and the farmers, uniting them in the fight against the bandits to show that social class lines can be broken when people come together for a common goal.