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Killer's Romance
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List Price: $9.95
Our Price: $9.95
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Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Starring: Marcus Fox, Kenichi Ishida, Cheung Lak, Siu-Ming Lau, Carman Lee
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9786305261407
Format: Color
ISBN: 6305261407
Label: Tai Seng
Manufacturer: Tai Seng
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Pan & Scan
Publisher: Tai Seng
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 1999-01-19
Running Time: 91
Studio: Tai Seng
Theatrical Release Date: 1990
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Editorial Reviews:
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A crisply executed B gangster film from Hong Kong, circa 1990. Stylistically it's a clone of the John Woo-Chow Yun-fat gangster films, but it also owes a lot to the popular Japanese comic book Crying Freeman, the story of a soulful hit man. Handsomely filmed on location in London, the film has a clear but enjoyably complex plot that implicates both the Japanese and the Chinese mobs in a plot to rub out an old guard crime boss, a traditionalist who opposes the lucrative drug trade. Sullen, sensual Simon Yam (Bullet in the Head), who looks half-dressed until he grows some photogenic chin stubble, is an orphan who was raised and trained to kill as the adopted son of the Old Boss. He plots revenge against his father's enemies, and becomes enmeshed in a series of double-crosses. Joey Wong (the sexy spook from A Chinese Ghost Story) is a photographer who accidentally records one of Yam's kills. The final battle sequences have a much smaller body count than their Woo counterparts, but they do add some hand-to-hand kung fu, and a little old-school swordplay, to the martial mix. This is a minor movie, but a pleasing one, with a dark romantic score and a savory sense of gangland ritual and melodrama. --David Chute
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Wait for a subbed/letterboxed release of this film, and buy.
Comment: First of all, this is a reasonably strong film. Not that you'd know it watching this DVD. If you are lucky enough to find the letterboxed/subtitled video, rent or buy it. Simon Yam puts on a very strong performance as the head of a crime family whom is is forced by circumstance to take a hands on approach to eliminating the competition. By no means a groundbreaker by way of plot, and definately not Yam's finest hour as an actor but it does have some finely choreographed violence, including a noteworthy kendo match in which Yam administers a savage and breathtaking beating to one of his lackeys during a sparring match. A reasonably grimey and aggresive low budget gangster film in its original form, this DVD's production reduces it to a laughable mess at times. -Jason Storm
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Summary: pretty damn good
Comment: This movie is great.Simon Yam delivers a great performance as an adopted chinese son of a japanese yakuza leader.The chinese triads and the japanese yakuza are battling for control in Britain's chinatown.When his father is killed,he goes on a killing spree,killing anyone who may have had anything to do with his father's death.One day when killing a triad leader,he is caught on camera by a girl(Joey Wong).Instead of killing her,he falls in love with her.At the end, Yam kills all the baddies,finding that the main villian is his trusted underboss.The movie has some great looking scenes,some capturing the very essence of the animated cartoon, Crying Freeman,which this film was based on.The gunplay in the film is very good,as well as the swordplay.The fights(courtesy of Phillip Kao)are first rate,very hard hitting,and well choreographed.
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