''City Hero'' is a 1985 Hong Kong action

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directed by

Dennis Yu Dennis Yu Yun-kong (余允抗) is a Hong Kong film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. ...

and starring

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, Bennett Pang, Anthony Tang,

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and Michael Wong.

Plot

Five young and idealistic policemen, nicknamed Bravo (

), Rambo (Anthony Tang), Superstition (Bennett Pang), Wealthy ( Michael Wong) and Old Bachelor (

) are tired of their jobs and are determined to join the

Special Duties Unit The Special Duties Unit (SDU; ), nicknamed the "Flying Tigers" (), is the elite tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force tasked with countering terrorist attacks, hostage rescue, underwater search and recovery, and tackling serious crime i ...

. Instructor Lee (

) demands discipline, efficiency and obedience. Despite the hostility and hardships, the young officers begin to realize that Instructor Lee is passionate at heart. Eventually, they all respect him for his devotion and inspiration. During Christmas night, they are summoned to an emergency assignment. A dozen of innocent citizen are held as hostages. The death of Bravo in their first successful mission sadden their high spirit and celebrating mood.

Cast

as SDU Trainer Lee *

as Luk Ying-kei / Bravo *Bennett Pang as Ng Sam-kwai / Superstition *Anthony Tang as Rambo *

as Old Bachelor * Michael Wong as Lee Ka-ho / Wealthy * Pat Ha as Siu-wai *Charine Chan as Chu-chu *

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as Siu-wai's mom *

Ku Feng Chan Sze-man (born 3 July 1930), better known by his stage name Ku Feng, is a Hong Kong actor. Background He studied in Beijing, and has appeared in hundreds of films, many of which were produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio Shaw Brothers ( ...

as Siu-wai's dad *Tin Ching as SDU Assistant Trainer *

Billy Chow Billy Chow Bei-lei ( zh, 周比利; born August 24, 1958) is a Hong Kong-Canadian martial artist, film actor, and retired professional kickboxer. He was the WKA world Welterweight champion from 1984 to 1986, and retired with a professional recor ...

as thug *Siu Yuk-lung as thug *So Hon-sang as thug *Ko Miu-si as Trainer Lee's wife *Wong Man as Assistant Trainer's wife *Law Keung as man at street fight *Stephen Chan as Ming *Bobby Wu *Yuen Ling-to *

Yu Mo-lin Yu Miu-Lin (, born 4 July 1937) is a Chinese actress from Hong Kong. Yu is credited with 145 films. Early life In 4 July 1937, Yu was born as Yu Chi-nga () in Canton. Her late mother Tang Mei-mei (鄧美美) was an actress who was not widely ...

as hostage *

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as hostage *Leung Hak-shun *Fung King-chi *Patrick Tsui *Ho Leng-leng *Cheung Hing-choi *Ka Sang *Chiu Sze-wai *Ngan Yee-kei *Wong Chi-ying *Lam Foo-wai *Yat-poon Chai as Police Officer in parade *Luk Ying-hong as Inspector Law

Box office

The film grossed HK$7,375,915 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 9 to 30 October 1985 in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

External links

* *
City Hero
' at

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