Long Arm of the Law (film)

Long Arm of the Law
Long Arm of the Law
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	省港旗兵
Jyutping
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Jyutping	Saang Gong Kei Bing
Directed by	Johnny Mak
Written by	Philip Chan
Produced by	Sammo Hung; Johnny Mak
Cinematography	Johnny Koo Kwok Wah
Edited by	Peter Cheung Yiu Chung
Music by	Lam Miu Tak; Mahmood Rumajahn
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release date	11 July 1984;
Running time	100 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese

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.^[1]^[2]^[3]

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).

Plot

Cast

Chen Jing
Kong Lung
Ben Lam Kwok Bun
David Lam Wai
Ng Hoi Tin
Shum Wai
Wong Kin
Wong Yan Tat
Yeung Min
Tommy Wong Kwong Leung - cameo
Charles Rhys Rowlands

Awards

4th Annual Hong Kong Film Awards (1985):

Won - Best Supporting Actor (Shum Wai)
Won - Best Editing (Cheung Yiu-Chung)
Nominated - Best Film
Nominated - Best Director (Johnny Mak Tong-Hung)
Nominated - Best Screenplay (Philip Chan Yan-Kin)
Nominated - Best New Performer (Lin Wei)
Nominated - Best Cinematography (Koo Kwok-Wah)
Nominated - Best Action Choreography (Billy Chan Wui-Ngai)
Nominated - Best Original Score (Lam Mo-Tak)

Long Arm of the Law was ranked #6 on the list of Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures during the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony on 27 March 2005.

References

^ Browne, Nick (1994). New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 169–187. ISBN 978-0-521-44877-2.
^ Marchetti, Gina (1 April 2007). Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-962-209-801-5.
^ Fang, Karen (2017). Arresting cinema : surveillance in Hong Kong film. Stanford, California. pp. 69–81. ISBN 978-1-5036-0075-1. OCLC 958141489.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

External links

This article related to a Hong Kong film of the 1980s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This 1980s crime film–related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Browne, Nick (1994). New Chinese Cinemas: Forms, Identities, Politics. Cambridge University Press. pp. 169–187. ISBN 978-0-521-44877-2.

[2] Marchetti, Gina (1 April 2007). Andrew Lau and Alan Mak's Infernal Affairs - The Trilogy: Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1880. Hong Kong University Press. pp. 90–91. ISBN 978-962-209-801-5.

[3] Fang, Karen (2017). Arresting cinema : surveillance in Hong Kong film. Stanford, California. pp. 69–81. ISBN 978-1-5036-0075-1. OCLC 958141489.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

[1]

[2]

[3]