75 Films & TV Shows Set In Hong Kong During The 20th Century
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Lee Rock
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960s The 1950s The 1940sThe film chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police force that Lee Rock becomes a part of.
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Lee Rock II
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1960s The 1950sHe is now the most powerful person in the police force...but he chooses to retreat...because he knows the rules of the power struggle. LEE ROCK - A legend of Hong Kong. — The second part of the trilogy chronicling the rise and fall of Hong Kong's top corrupt official. During this time period, Lee Rock enjoys his sucess and has found a new love. But jealousy within the ranks and a new departmrnt designed to clean up the corruption within the system is threating the comfort that Lee Rock enjoys.
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Bullet in the Head
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sWhen three close friends escape from Hong Kong to war-time Saigon to start a criminal's life, they all go through a harrowing experience which totally shatters their lives and their friendship forever.
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Days of Being Wild
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇵🇭 Philippines The 1960sYuddy, a Hong Kong playboy known for breaking girls' hearts, tries to find solace and the truth after discovering the woman who raised him isn't his mother.
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Skinny Tiger, Fatty Dragon
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇸🇬 Singapore The 1990sTwo righteous detectives, Skinny and Fatty, infuriate their superior by ruining his wedding — King-sized martial arts hero Sammo Hung stars in this wild and wacky blend of action and comedy. Skinny (Karl Maka) and Fatty (Sammo Hung) are a pair of police detectives who soon find themselves on the outs with their boss when they accidentally make a mess of his wedding while chasing Tak, a big league drug trafficker. Skinny and Fatty are forced to leave their jobs, but while on holiday in Singapore, they forget their troubles when they both find love with beautiful women. However, Tak is convinced the former cops are still a threat, and when he abducts their girlfriends, Skinny and Fatty swing into action to rescue them.
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Miracles
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1930sMeet the original gangster! — A country boy becomes the head of a gang through the purchase of some lucky roses from an old lady. He and a singer at the gang's nightclub try to do a good deed for the old lady when her daughter comes to visit.
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Casino Raiders
California 🇩🇪 Germany 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture The 20th CenturyFor most of the running time it's business as usual as gamblers Andy Lau and Alan Tam pull scams when they're not exposing them for casinos and incurring the wrath of a family of Japanese gangsters before Tam marries rich girl Idy Chan and Lau, as is the way with all movie hustlers, gets a busted hand, a drink problem and Rosamund Chan (so not entirely a bad shuffle there).
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Long Arm of the Law III
🇨🇳 China 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sMichal Mak's second sequel to his brother's action classic finds an ex-soldier/escaped death row prisoner fleeing to Hong Kong and forced to work for a gang of criminals when they kidnap the woman he loves.
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Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
🇨🇳 China 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sA man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
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Fatal Bet
Nevada California 🇩🇪 Germany 🇭🇰 Hong Kong Tokyo Prefecture The 20th CenturySam Rogers and Crab are gamblers and friends. Forced into a battle with Japanese gangsters, how far will their friendship go? A high stakes card game will settle it all.
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Bloodsport
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970s The 1980sThe true story of an American ninja. — U.S. soldier Frank Dux has come to Hong Kong to be accepted into the Kumite, a highly secret and extremely violent martial arts competition. While trying to gain access into the underground world of clandestine fighters, he also has to avoid military officers who consider him to be AWOL. After enduring a difficult training and beginning a romance with journalist Janice Kent, Frank is given the opportunity to fight. But can he survive?
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Painted Faces
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1960sThe critically-acclaimed story of three young men growing from a traditional Chinese theatrical school to stardom in Hong Kong's thriving film industry. — The story of Peking Opera School, its teacher Master Yu and his students.
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Hong Kong 1941
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sYears later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape. Written by
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The Owl vs Bombo
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sSammo (Bumbo) and George Lam (Owl) are partners in crime and they scam some triad big shot out of a load of money and decide to retire. Three years later they both receive letters from Stanley Fung, in which he informs them that he has proof of all their criminal activity and unless they do exactly what he says–he will turn it over to the cops. Fung is an ex-cop himself and is trying to get the goods on the same triad leader that Sammo and George scammed.
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Carry on Pickpocket
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sPopular Hong Kong actor-filmmaker Sammo Hung directed himself in this amusing action-comedy in which he stars as Rice Pot, a highly skilled pickpocket who falls in love with a beautiful female police inspector. The inspector (Deanie Yip) decides that she will overlook Rice Pot's prodigious list of legal offenses if he steals a pouch from a gangster's courier (Peter Chan). Rice Pot's partner, Chimney (Frankie Chan), carries out the assignment, only to discover that the pouch contains a veritable trove of stolen diamonds. Before long, Rice Pot and Chimney are running for their lives from the mobsters, who are willing to kill to get the diamonds back.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
🇫🇷 France 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970sJust when you thought it was safe to go back to the movies... — Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
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Unsung Heroes
🇰🇵 North Korea (DPRK) 🇰🇷 South Korea 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1950sThe film follows Yu Rim, a Korean expatriate in the United Kingdom working as a journalist, who is ordered by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea to proceed to Seoul and gather intelligence on the United States Forces Korea.
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Enter the Dragon
California Henan Province 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1970sTheir deadly mission: to crack the forbidden island of Han! — A martial artist agrees to spy on a reclusive crime lord using his invitation to a tournament there as cover.
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The Last Grenade
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇩 Congo Democratic Republic of the The 1960sBreaking into Red China someone has to end the madness... — British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
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The Terror of the Tongs
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1910sTerror stalks the street of opium dreams! — In 1910, Hong Kong, under the rule of the British Empire, is a prosperous and bustling city, but, hidden in the shadows of its many narrow streets, the hideous members of the Red Dragon gang, a branch of the evil Chinese secret society of the Tongs, lurk and murder those who oppose to their tyranny, which thrives on vice, crime and the fear of the weakest.
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Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing
🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇰🇷 South Korea The 1950s The 1940sThe price they pay when they come out of their secret garden and face the world in modern-day Hong Kong - makes this one of the screen's unforgettable experiences! — A widowed doctor of both Chinese and European descent falls in love with a married American correspondent in Hong Kong during China's Communist revolution.
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An Orphan's Tragedy
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 20th CenturyAn orphan meets and befriends an escaped convict that he will cross paths with again and bring about a series of fateful events that reveals a secret about the boy's past.
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They Met in Bombay
🇮🇳 India 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇨🇳 China The 1930s The 1940sStealing jewels for profit . . . and hearts for pleasure! — A jewel thief and a con artist are rivals in the theft of a valuable gem as the Japanese army invades China.
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The Shanghai Drama
Shanghai 🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1930s The 1940sA Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
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Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
🇭🇰 Hong Kong The 1980sWhen a stock market crash causes the sudden collapse of a multi-billion-dollar company, an ICAC investigator (Andy Lau) uncovers a criminal conspiracy involving the company’s founder, Ching Yat-yin (Tony Leung) and becomes entangled in a long-running investigation.
