As the child of CIA operatives in Cambodia, Wai Lok Yan witnesses the brutal murder of his parents and sister by the traitor Ray Lui. Twenty years later, both Yan and Ray are in Thailand; Yan as a military pilot, Ray as a billionaire arms smuggler. With the help of his Uncle Shang and the CIA, Yan, as “Mandy Chan,” penetrates the Chinese underworld in order to seek his revenge against Ray.
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A young man lives with his attractive female cousin who is a student of the occult. She is at odds with her cousin’s sometime girlfriend who, if anything is an avid student of the same material. He hasn’t the money nor the connections to keep up with his girlfriend’s high style. The man finds a letter from a mysterious ‘Butterfly’ and decides to write back– with dramatic and sometimes terrifying results.
Anthony Wong plays a traffic cop who is obsessed with action films. He wants to be a real life hero and gets his chance when he becomes involved in a botched bank robbery case.
In pre-revolutionary China, a local lord owns a fireworks factory that he leaves to his daughter, having no male heir. Chun Zhi takes control of the factory at only 19 years old, but she commands the respect of her workers, who make no issue of either her age or her gender. Unfortunately, Zhi inherited the factory under the stipulation that she never marry, a condition that becomes problematic when she falls for a traveling artist.
Instead of following the wishes of her parents and flying to Toronto, Mo-yung journeys instead to NYC, in hope of finding Benny, a mysterious photographer who has attracted her. There, she meets Rubie, a sympathetic clinic worker who helps her to settle in the city. However, both women’s lives are destined to be shattered by the actions of Joey, a dangerously violent and schizophrenic teacher, who has stopped taking his medication and is now stalking Rubie.
In 1937 Shanghai, a soon-to-depart soldier meets a young woman under a bridge during a Japanese air raid. They vow to meet after the war ends, but they don’t each other’s name or face. Ten years later, the young woman, a nightclub singer, takes in a naive girl fresh from the country. The country girl falls in love with the would-be song-writer upstairs who, unbeknownst to the singer, is none other than the soldier from the bridge.
This story follows a cop in Shanghai during the 1930s. His department is overrun with corruption, while gangsters rule the city via the opium trade.