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SYNOPSIS:
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Synopsis from Cinémathèque: In a brand new print of a film long unseen in its widescreen format, HK studio Golden Harvest & Australia’s leading action director Brian
Trenchard-Smith
bring the Kowloon Harbour police thriller’s ballet of violence & sex to the blue waters of Sydney Harbour. Featuring HK star Jimmy Wang Yu, and a viciously outrageous performance up in a world too harsh for innocence. A linear
narrative which showers the audience with a plethora of cinematic effects, beautiful landscapes, & ranges from harrowing realism to ghostly expressionism.
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Kung fu flick starring Jimmy Wang Yu, George Lazenby,
Hugh Keays-Byrne & Sammo Hung.
Directed & written by Brian Trenchard-Smith. 113 mins.
WEBSITE:
Man
From Hong Kong info at ScreenSound Australia
HEROIC-CINEMA'S REVIEW:
Piss off your Picnic at Hanging Rock, stuff
your Strictly Ballroom, bugger your Breaker Morant -
this is the film that you were born to watch! Two-fisted and
way groovy, it's a lost Aussie/Hong Kong kung fu classic.
ScreenSound have wonderfully restored both the Technicolour (TM)
print and the funkadelic audio. It hasn't looked this good since
1975 (come to think of it, neither have I...)
See Sammo Hung and an Ocker cop go at it on top of Ayers
Rock!
See Jimmy Wang Yu put the squirrel grip on an Aussie assassin
in a Chinese restaurant!
Hear the fab sounds of Jigsaw's "Skyhigh"!
Revel in a film shot when hang gliders were cool, man!
See Jimmy Wang Yu jump in a Valiant Charger and chase down
his enemies!
See the red blood flow like tomato sauce, which it most
probably is!
See Jimmy Wang Yu make out with bonza Aussie sheilas!
See the fashions!
See the hairstyles!
See The Man From Hong Kong, mate!
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