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Long Arm of the Law (film)

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Long Arm of the Law
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese省港旗兵
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
JyutpingSaang Gong Kei Bing
Directed byJohnny Mak
Written byPhilip Chan
Produced bySammo Hung
Johnny Mak
CinematographyJohnny Koo Kwok Wah
Edited byPeter Cheung Yiu Chung
Music byLam Miu Tak
Mahmood Rumajahn
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 11 July 1984 (1984-07-11)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

Long Arm of the Law (省港旗兵, lit. "Red Guards in Guangzhou and Hong Kong") is a 1984 Hong Kong crime film directed by Johnny Mak Tong-hung.[1][2][3]

Five men try to enter Hong Kong surreptitiously, meeting their leader there, to rob a jewellery store. One is shot and killed by Chinese border guards. Police investigating another robbery attempt at the same store spot their car acting suspiciously while they are casing it and give chase, with the robbers only escaping by opening fire and stealing a taxi.

Before the robbery has taken place, they are employed by a local triad to kill someone. The target turns out to be a policeman and they have to carry out the robbery while hiding from the police searching for them.

There were three sequels: Long Arm of the Law II (1987), Long Arm of the Law III (1989) and Long Arm of the Law IV: Underground Express (1990).

Plot

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Cast

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  • Chen Jing
  • Kong Lung
  • Ben Lam Kwok Bun
  • David Lam Wai
  • Ng Hoi Tin
  • Shum Wai
  • Wong Kin
  • Wong Yan Tat
  • Yeung Min
  • Tommy Wong Kwong Leung - cameo
  • Charles Rhys Rowlands

Awards

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4th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards (1985):

Long Arm of the Law was ranked #6 on the list of Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures during the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005.

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Browne, Nick (1994). New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 169–187. ISBN 978-0-521-44877-2.
  2. ^ Marchetti, Gina (1 April 2007). Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-962-209-801-5.
  3. ^ Fang, Karen (2017). Arresting cinema : surveillance in Hong Kong film. Stanford, California. pp. 69–81. ISBN 978-1-5036-0075-1. OCLC 958141489.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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