''No More Love, No More Death'' is a 1993

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directed by

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and starring

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and

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. The film is a prequel to the 1992 film, ''

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'', and was produced in response to the popularity of Cheung's character, "Prince".

Plot

Triad leaders White Tiger (Chan Yuen) and Green Dragon ( Michael Chan) become enemies while fighting for the objection of Yuk-fung (Yip San). Tiger abducts the child Prince and fabricates a story of how his mother was abducted by Dragon. Since then, Prince was determined to study martial arts in order to kill Dragon and rescue his mother. Prince was trained by Tiger to be a killer, and killing Dragon have become Prince's goal. One day, when Prince (

) had the chance to kill Dragon, he sees his dream lover, Tweedy (

), and as a result, fails to kill Dragon, breaking his reputation of never making mistakes on missions. Prince's assistant, Ching-ching (

), whom is deeply in love with him, arranges Tweedy to seemingly disappear for a while for the sake of him. However, Prince mistakenly believes that Ching-ching betrayed him and killed Tweedy and begins to drink heavily. Because he thinks Tweedy is dead, Prince feels hopeless. Later, Tiger calls Dragon out to meet with him, telling him that Prince is actually Dragon's son, a fact that Prince did not expect. When Tiger and Dragon were arguing who is truly Prince's father, Tiger points his gun at Prince and blames Prince for his resentments. During a battle, Ching-ching gets shot and killed by Tiger in order to protect Prince. Afterwards, Prince sadly carries Ching-ching away, reminiscing a time when Ching-ching asked him whether he will cry when she dies. Later, Tweedy also tells Prince that Ching-ching entrusted her to not meet with him until he kills Dragon. Prince did not say a word, and silently watches the distant sunset with Tweedy.

Cast

as Prince *

as Tweedy *

as Ching-ching *Chin Ho as Mute killer *

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as Cop * Michael Chan as Green Dragon *Chan Yuen as White Dragon *Wong Siu-lung as Cop *Lisa Tung as Lisa *Tip San as Yuk-fung *So Wai-nam as Bodyguard *Lam Kwok-kit as Bodyguard *Lee Ka-hung as Bodyguard *Wong Kar-leung as Policeman in elevator *Jim James as Judge

Reception

Critical reception

LoveHKFilm
' gave the film a mixed review citing cheesy production values and "nothing really makes sense", but also noting how "the production design and cinematography are overblown to entertaining distraction, and the stars are welcome ones nowadays."

Box office

The film grossed HK$6,917,896 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 16 to 29 April 1993.

References

External links

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' at

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