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Yuen
Biao is a young troublemaker who looks after his sick uncle. He
dreams of playing in the local soccer team alongside the town's
hero striker (Dick Wei). However, after getting a job for the team
as a ballboy Yuen realises that money and fame mean that everyone's
idol is accepting bribes to throw the game...
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Aaron Kwok plays Darren,
an up and coming police officer in China. His partner, Alex (Leehom
Wang) is dating their chief's daughter played by the Ruby Lin who
is an up and coming fashion designer. Tony, (Mark Dascascos) is
the successor to a Chinese smuggling ring and wants to start bringing
drugs in to the Mainland.
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This
hour and a half documentary focuses on the recent addition of the
category three movie into Hong Kong cinema. Basically, these films
contain all of the usual Hong Kong trademarks but at the same time
push the barriers of what is allowed with sex and violence to the
absolute limit.
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Leslie
Cheung is a junior triad who becomes a chef, gets a job in a resturant,
and befriends the owner's teenybopper daughter (Anita Yuen). When
an evil competitor forces Cheung's boss to bet his resturant on
a cooking contest Cheung must find China's one-time greatest chef
- now an emotional wreck - and get him back on his feet to save
the day.
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A young man is traveling
the countryside on a mission to collect old debts in hopes of winning
the love of a beautiful girl who abandoned him years ago. But things
in the rustic countryside aren't so peaceful, for the land is full
of ghosts. In addition to this, he meets a beautiful ghost who is
intent on grabbing his soul for her employer.
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Two disconnected stories
about Hong Kong policemen jilted by their girlfriends. In the first
Takashi Kaneshiro goes into a bar on his birthday determined to
fall in love with the first woman he sees and picks up a blonde
wigged Brigette Lin. In the second story Tong Leung, pining over
his ex-girlfriend dosen't notice the counter girl at a fast food
resturant has a crush on him.
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Jackie
Chan is 'City Hunter' a womanising private detective hired to track
down a rich man's daughter. Her trail leads him to a cruise ship
which is later hijacked by terrorists. Jackie and his gang of women
must try and save the ship from the terriorists who are holding
the rich hostages to ransom.
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Chow Yun Fat stars as Liu
Mu Bai a legendary kung-fu master who's sword (the 400 year old
'Green Destiny') is stolen. Its theft sets off a complex interaction
between a sword-wielding warrior, his ally and a bandit. Their common
nemesis is a creepy and lethal outcast named Jade Fox. Who turns
out to be more lethal than she first seems.
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