Format:
1 videocassette (118 min.)
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sound, color
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1/2 in
Original writing title:
喋血街頭
Content:
Explores themes of friendship, honor, and betrayal in the context of the Vietnam war. In 1967 Hong Kong, Ben (Leung) is engaged to Jane (Yeun), while his friends, the clownish Frank (Cheung) and the ambitious Paul (Lee) have less certain futures. On Ben's wedding night, the trio kill a local gangster. Anxious to get out of town, they agree to deliver medicine and Rolex watches to a Saigon crime lord, Mr. Leong. Upon their arrival in Vietnam, however, a terrorist attack destroys their merchandise. Broke and desperate, they ally themselves with Luke (Yam), a CIA operative out to stop Leong from assisting the Vietcong. After a shoot-out at Leong's Saigon brothel, Ben, Frank and Paul escape with a trunk of gold leaves, but are captured by the NVA and tortured. Luke arrives with the US Army to rescue them. In the melee, Paul critically wounds Frank and Ben and flees with the gold. After being nursed back to health by Buddhist monks, Ben returns to Saigon where Frank, thanks to the bullet Paul put in his head, is now a crazed drug addict. Ben tearfully puts him out of his misery. Back in Hong Kong, Ben is reunited with Jane, meets his three-year-old son for the first time, and resolves to settle the score with Paul
Note:
Originally released in 1990 in China (Hong Kong) as a motion picture
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Zielgruppe - Audience: Not rated
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VHS.
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In Cantonese with traditional Chinese and English subtitles
Language:
Chinese
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