One of many attention-grabbing most issues about this film is that two variations had been filmed (a bit like Irreversi): a Japanese one starring Hideaki Natani in the principle position, and the Chinese language model with Wang Yu. The model right here is the Chinese language one, but when anybody is aware of the place the Japanese one might be discovered, please let me know as it might be attention-grabbing to match scenes and see if there’s a distinction in areas.
It is also becoming that that is my subsequent movie as a result of Wang Yu only in the near past handed away on the fifth April. I am not a fan of his work in any respect I am afraid however I recognize the contribution he has made to the film business. I think that my opinion of him is colored a bit by the latest documentary overlaying the making of The Man from Hong Kong which painted him as reasonably disagreeable (e.g. intentionally consuming flies earlier than his kissing scene with the feminine co-star), Cheng Pei-pei calling him the difficulty maker between Lo Wei and Bruce Lee in an interview for the HK Worldwide Movie Competition a number of years in the past on the verge , oh sure and the final hyperlinks to Taiwanese gangsters and the homicide cost.
Anyway, on this film a really younger and pre-superstar Wang Yu performs a member of Asia-Pol, a of Pan-Asian Police organisation alongside the traces of MI6 or the CIA. They’re out to carry down a infamous Japanese gangster who’s smuggling gold into Japan from Hong Kong. It is principally a reasonably first rate try at a James Bond kind movie with all kinds of twists and turns and even some nifty devices thrown in for good measure. The motion begins off in Japan earlier than shifting to Hong Kong the place, in a sub-plot, Wang Yu’s lengthy misplaced organic father is assassinated by the gang after he has been concerned in a few of their logistical work.
The opening Hong Kong scene is a pleasant panning shot taken from a shifting automobile driving someplace alongside the Peak space. The eagle-eyed will be capable of spot factors of curiosity, however for most individuals it is only a good view of Hong Kong earlier than it grew to become cluttered with excessive rises.
