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	Year:	1989	Lam Ching-Ying
	Director:	Stephen Tung Wai
	Cast:	Lam Ching-Ying, Wilson Lam Chun-Yin, Miu Kiu-Wai, Wong Mei-Wah, Michiko Nishiwaka, Wu Ma, Billy Chow Bei-Lei, Chan Chi-Leung, Wong Yuk-Hang, Sung Yat-Lin
	The Skinny:	Lam Ching-Ying's Taoist crimefighting makes for great fun.
	Review by Kozo:	This fun flick from the eighties features Lam Ching-Ying as a modern-day cop with Taoist monk methods. He’s enlisted by Wu Ma to track down a mysterious drug dealer who’s using dead bodies to do her dealing. Along the way, Lam gets saddled with a brash young partner (Wilson Lam) who doesn’t believe in all this Taoist stuff. However, he changes his tune when he discovers the powers that their evil adversary has - and she’s a Japanese drug kingpin played by Michiko Nishikawa. The action scenes are fun (as one would expect from Stephen Tung), and the cultural connections are cool-as-can-be. Lam’s Taoist detective methods are worth the price of the rental alone. An entertaining movie. (Kozo 1996)
	Availability:	DVD (Hong Kong) Region 0 NTSC Mega Star/Media Asia 16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen Cantonese, Mandarin and English Language Tracks Dolby Digital 5.1 Removable English and Chinese Subtitles
		image courtesy of Mega Star Video Distribution, Ltd.
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