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This
film follows the recent tradition of setting Hong Kong actioners
in a European location - in this case Germany. Unfortunately the
director doesn't make any good use of the locale, and apart from
the open spaces this may as well of been filmed in Hong Kong.
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Jet Li is one of the Chinese
Wushu team touring America. However, his chain smoking partner (Dick
Wei) is jealous that Li has his youth and is therefore upstaging
him. As a result of this Wei decides to stay in America and joins
the local triad gang. Li's attempts to stop him are unsuccessful
and he misses his plane.
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A
remake of King Hu's 1967 swordplay classic 'Dragon Gate Inn'. Two
noble warriors (Tony Leung and Brigette Lin) rescue the children
of a general murdered by an evil eunuch, and, while fleeing through
the desert, take refuge at the Dragon Inn. Trapped there by bad
weather, the heroes are kept on their feet when the enunuch's swordsmen
arrive...
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When
an industrialist is sued by a woman who claims his factory is poisoning
her fish farm, he hires attorney Jackie Chan to get her off his
back. Chan recruits his old friends Hung and Yuen to spy on the
woman: but when the three men discover that the industrialist is
manufacturing narcotics, they switch sides and raid his factory.
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The evil British and their
treasonous Chinese henchmen are planning to smuggle the emporer's
jade seal and other art treasures out of Manchuria, unless Wong
Fei Hung (Jackie) can stop them with his drunken boxing. Teaming
up with a Manchurian officer (Lau Kar Leung) the mischievous Wong
must fight against the aggresors in a climatic battle set in a foundry
works.
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Michelle Reis plays a young
maiden in desperate need to rendezvous with the Manchu general.
If she presents him with a jade ring he will make her his queen.
Trying to prevent this is a young nationalist revolutionary (Andy
Lau). After clashing with Manchu guards Lau and Reis find safety
in the house of Wong Kay Ying.
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