The Big Heat

[Machine Translation] This violence-filled police action film was produced by Tsui Hark and stars Ray Chi-hong, who had his breakout role in the blockbuster hit "A Song for Men. Initially, this film was directed solely by Johnnie To, who had attracted attention as an up-and-coming director from the TV industry. However, due to Tsui Hark's intervention, it was co-directed with Andrew Kam, who worked as Hark's assistant for many years, and was finally released in 1988. The screenplay, which depicted the anguish of a Hong Kong where crime had drastically increased due to the imminent return to China, was written by Gordon Chan, who later became an ace director (e.g., Dead Heat). The action is directed by Philip Kwok (Bond of Wolves), who also stars as the protagonist's colleague, Detective Wong. --Captain Wong, a skilled investigator with the Hong Kong Police Department, decides to retire after suffering from a numb hand caused by a spinal nerve during a gunfight. However, when he receives word that his former partner and close friend Tse, with whom he once risked his life in a dangerous crime scene, has been brutally murdered during an undercover operation in Malaysia, he decides to postpone his retirement to pursue Tse's murderer. They eventually discover that Han Chin, the head of a cocaine trafficking organization, is behind Tse's murder, but the organization kills one investigator after another, and the evidence of cocaine smuggling is also erased. Wong and his team of investigators find conclusive evidence of Han Chin's evil, but they are attacked by a group of armed men, and one by one, they lose their lives. Wounded, Wong points an angry bullet at Han Chin... Video Special Features (tentative): Includes the original trailer.

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大ヒット作『男たちの挽歌』でブレイクしたレイ・チーホンを主演にツイ・ハークが製作したバイオレンス満載のポリス・アクション。当初テレビ界出身の新鋭として注目されていたジョニー・トー単独監督作だったが、ツイ・ハークの介入でハークのアシスタントを数多く務めたアンドリュー・カムとの共同監督作となり、1988年にようやく公開された。中国への返還が迫り、犯罪が激増する香港の苦悩を描いた脚本はその後エース監督となる『デッドヒート』などのゴードン・チャン。アクション指導は主人公の同僚刑事役で出演もしている『狼たちの絆』のフィリップ・クォク他。――香港警察の敏腕捜査官ウォン警部は、銃撃戦の最中に脊髄神経からくる手の痺れに襲われたことから引退を決意する。だが、かつて危険な現場で命をかけた捜査を協力して行った元相棒で親友でもあったツェがマレーシアでの潜入捜査中に惨殺されたとの知らせを受け、引退を延期してツェを殺した犯人を追う。やがてツェ殺害の黒幕が、コカイン密売組織のボス、ハン・チンであることがわかるが、組織は捜査関係者を次々と殺害し、コカイン密輸の証拠も消していく。ウォンと彼の捜査チームはハン・チンの悪事の決定的証拠を掴むが、武装した集団の襲撃を受け、一人また一人と命を落としていく。満身創痍の中、ウォンは怒りの銃弾をハン・チンに向ける・・・。映像特典 (予定): オリジナルトレーラーを収録。