Long Arm of the Law (1984)
- Original title
- 省港旗兵
- Directed by
- Johnny Mak
- Genre
- crime film
- Country
- Hong Kong
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Rated
- 18
- Rating
- 6.9 of 10 from 45 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Five men from mainland China sneak into Hong Kong to rob a jewelry store. They get tangled up with a local triad and have to hide from police while trying to pull off the heist.
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What happens
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. 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). Declassified files revealed that the fourth film in the series, which has a premise based on Operation Yellowbird in the aftermath of the Tiananmen massacre, was labelled by Chinese officials as "subversive". The Hong Kong government had considered banning the movie but was concerned that a ban could "give the film an importance it did not deserve", both in Hong Kong and abroad. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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