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Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

Year of production
1980
Duration
95 min.
Genres
Fiction

Synopsis

In the early 1980s, three friends build a homemade bomb to detonate it in a movie theater in their city. A troubled young girl who witnesses the explosion manages to manipulate them into forming a criminal alliance, leading them to take on mercenaries and arms dealers. A nihilistic portrait of Hong Kong's hustle and bustle from the co-director of A Chinese Ghost Story III, with clear influences from the early works of Carpenter, Peckinpah, and Leone.

Director

Tsui Hark

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Technical sheet

Section
Seven Chances
Director
Tsui Hark
Writer
Cheuk-Hon Szeto
Cinematography
David Chung
Editor
Cheung-Kan Chow, Wai-Tsi Wu
With
Chen-Chi Lin, Lieh Lo, Albert Au
Production countries
Hong Kong
Languages
English
Cantonese
Subtitle languages
Spanish, English

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