Tiger on Beat
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Tiger on Beat (Lo foo chut gang) is a 1988 Hong Kong action-comedy film directed by Lau Kar-leung. It stars Chow Yun-Fat and Conan Lee as a buddy cop team who originally hate each other, but learn to overcome their differences in solving a case.
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[edit] Trivia
- Shaw Brothers veteran Ti Lung appears as Triad dai lo (Cantonese: "big brother," equivalent to a higher ranking gang boss) Conan Lee fights to prove his worth as a police officer.
- Kung Fu film megastar Gordon Liu stars as one of the film's villains.
- As is obvious in certain segments of the film's final chainsaw battle, star Conan Lee and villain Gordon Liu at times use real, operating chainsaws.
- Star Chow Yun Fat's character in the film, unlike his suave and stylish A Better Tomorrow character, is at once buffoonish, cowardly and clumsy. He has claimed this was intentional, as he found himself becoming quickly typecast following A Better Tomorrow's phenomenal success.
- The film's director, Lau Kar Leung (aka Liu Chia Liang), has a martial arts training lineage which dates directly to legendary Chinese folk hero Wong Fei Hung, popularized in the successful Once Upon a Time in China film series, which starred Jet Li (for the most part). Lau is also a veteran of many Shaw Brothers kung fu films from the 1970s.
[edit] Cast
- Chow Yun Fat as Francis Li
- Conan Lee as Michael Tso
- Nina Li Chi as Marie-Donna
- Shirley Ng as Mimi, Francis' sister
- Gordon Liu - Fai, the Hitman
- Phillip Ko - Heroin dealer
- Shing Fui-On - Dummy (as Sing Fui Ann)
- Ti Lung - Loong
- David Chiang - Police Suprintendant
- James Wong - Police Inspector Jim Pak
- Lydia Sum - Department store staff
- Norman Chu - Mr. Law (as Norman Tsui Sui-Keung)
- Liu Chia Yung - Sour Puss
[edit] Crew
- Directed by Lau Kar Leung
- Written by Tsang Kwok Chi
- Music by Teddy Robin Kwan
- Theme Song by Maria Cordero
[edit] External links
Tiger on Beat at the Internet Movie Database
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