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Dragon from Russia (1990)

Dragon from Russia poster
Original title
紅場飛龍
Directed by
Clarence Fok
Genre
action film, martial arts film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 36m
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 23 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man is brainwashed into becoming a skilled assassin for a crime syndicate. He falls in love with a woman who witnessed his murder of a mob boss.

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What happens

The Dragon from Russia is a 1990 Hong Kong martial arts action film directed by Clarence Fok and based on the Japanese manga Crying Freeman and written by Kazuo Koike and Ryoichi Ikegami, and also produced by Dean Shek, and starring Sam Hui, Maggie Cheung, Nina Li Chi, Carrie Ng, Loletta Lee and guest starring Shek in his second-to-last film appearance before retiring from acting in two years later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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