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Back for more: the Young
and Dangerous gang |
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Year: |
1996 |
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Director: |
Andrew
Lau Wai-Keung |
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Producer: |
Manfred
Wong |
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Action: |
Dion
Lam Dik-On |
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Cast: |
Dior
Cheng Yee-Kin (Ekin Cheng), Jordan
Chan Siu-Chun, Gigi Lai
Chi, Chingmy Yau Suk-Ching,
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang,
Jerry
Lamb Hiu-Fung, Michael
Tse Tin-Wah, Jason Chu
Wing-Tong, Lui Chun, Halina
Tam Siu-Wan, Moses
Chan Ho, Blacky Ko Sau-Leung,
Simon
Yam Tat-Wah, Spencer
Lam Seung-Yi, Lee
Siu-Kei |
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The
Skinny: |
A
better, more complex story makes this sequel better than its
triad-glorifying predecessor. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Quickie sequel to the hit Young
and Dangerous focuses this time on Chicken (Jordan Chan
Siu-Chun), whose old boss and hot girlfriend (Chingmy Yau)
from Taiwan try to make an inroads into Macau. However, they
intend to do so at the cost of Chicken’s old gang, the Hung
Hing Group run by reinstated (and ever benevolent) boss Simon
Yam. Complicating things are a rivalry between Nam (Dior Cheng)
and fellow Hung Hing member and nose-picker Tai Fei (Anthony
Wong), who sides with the Taiwanese against his Hung Hing
brothers.
Featuring more young triad angst
and action, this sequel stands up to and even surpasses the
original. However, that might signify more of an HK movie
malaise than an actual stamp of quality. True, the film succeeds
on more levels because it has less comic book posturing and
concentrates more on actual realities of gang life. It ends
rather anticlimactically, though. As the scheming bad girl
from Taiwan, Chingmy Yau is pretty good, but that isn’t her
real voice we’re hearing. Kozo (1996) |
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Availability: |
DVD
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Region 0 NTSC
Mei Ah Laser
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
English and Chinese Subtitles |
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Also
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Young
and Dangerous (1996)
Young and Dangerous
3 (1996)
Young and Dangerous
4 (1997)
Young and Dangerous
5 (1998)
Born to be King (2000)
Young and Dangerous:
The Prequel (1998)
Portland Street Blues
(1998)
Those Were the Days
(2000)
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