''Fist Power'' is a 2000
Hong Kong action film
Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame. Action films from Hong Kong have roots in Chinese culture, Chinese and Culture of Hong Kong, Hong Kong cultures including Chinese opera, storytelling an ...
directed by Aman Chang, starring
Chiu Man-cheuk,
Anthony Wong,
Gigi Lai
Gigi Lai (born 1 October 1971) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. Entering the entertainment industry in 1985, Lai was under a contract with the television station TVB from 1991 until she retired in 2008. Nicknamed by the Hong Kong media as the ...
and
Sam Lee. Shooting for the film took place in Hong Kong between February and March 1999. The film was released in Hong Kong theatres on 21 January 2000.
Plot
Brian Cheuk is a mainland Chinese security specialist and martial arts teacher. He visits his family in Hong Kong. Shortly after he sends his nephew to school, Charles, a former British marine, takes the students hostage and plants bombs around the school. Charles is unhappy because his son was taken away by his ex-wife and her new husband, who are on their way to America. He demands that his son be brought to him in exchange for the hostages. Cheuk agrees to help Charles and he rushes to the airport with Simna (Charles's brother-in-law) and Hung (a reporter). Even after they find the boy, all is not over yet because their journey back is filled with danger — both the police and the thugs are out to get them as well as a foreign killer for hire..
Cast
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Chiu Man-cheuk as Brian Cheuk
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Anthony Wong as Charles Chau
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Gigi Lai
Gigi Lai (born 1 October 1971) is a Hong Kong actress and singer. Entering the entertainment industry in 1985, Lai was under a contract with the television station TVB from 1991 until she retired in 2008. Nicknamed by the Hong Kong media as the ...
as Hung
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Sam Lee as Simna
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Cheng Pei-pei as Brian's mother
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Lau Kar-wing
Lau Kar-wing (born 1944) is a Martial Artist, Hong Kong people, Hong Kong Chinese martial arts, martial arts film director, Stage combat, action choreographer and actor.
Background
Born in the Xinhui District of Jiangmen in Guangdong, People's R ...
as Brian's father
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Kara Hui
Kara Wai Ying-hung BBS (; born 3 February 1960) is a Hong Kong actress best known internationally for her roles in wuxia films produced by the Shaw Brothers Studio in the 1970s and 1980s.
Wai has since portrayed a wide range of roles on screen ...
as Brian's sister
* Lung Fong as Chiu Chung-tin
* Jewel Lee as Killer
* Mak King-ting as Charles Chau's ex-wife
* Wai Tin-chi as Killer
* Mak Tak-law as Killer
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Lam Suet
Lam Suet (; born 1964), or Lin Xue, is a Hong Kong film actor.
Life and career
Lam was born in Tianjin, and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squander ...
as Fatty
* Jude Poyer as Foreign Killer
* Wu Chi-lung as Brian Cheuk's brother-in-law
Home media
On 19 March 2001, the DVD was released by Mia in the United Kingdom in
Region 2. The DVD was released in Region 1 in the United States on 16 October 2001, it was distributed by Tai Seng.
See also
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List of Hong Kong films
This is a list of films produced in Hong Kong ordered by decade and year of release in separate pages. For film set in Hong Kong and produced elsewhere see ''List of films set in Hong Kong''.
1909–1949
*List of Hong Kong films before 1950
1 ...
References
External links
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2000 films
2000 action films
2000s Cantonese-language films
China Star Entertainment Group films
Films directed by Aman Chang
Films set in Hong Kong
Hong Kong action films
Kung fu films
2000s Hong Kong films
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