Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980)
第一類型危險
It started as a joyride; the terror never ended...
Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.
- Date of release
- 1980-12-04
- TMDB
- 7.2 / 10 (52)
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Crime, Thriller, Action
- Director
- Tsui Hark
Casting
- Lo Lieh — Officer Tan
- Lin Chen-Chi — Wan-Shu
- Paul Che Biu-Law — Ah Kao
- Albert Au Shui-Keung — Paul
- Lung Tin-Sang — Loong
- Ray Lui — Officer Lu
- Leong Po-Chih — Interpol Officer
- Ronny Yu — Interpol Officer
- John Shum Kin-Fun — Interpol Officer
- Tsui Hark — Interpol Officer
- Alex Cheung Kwok-ming — Interpol Officer
- Terry Tong Gei-Ming — Interpol Officer
Interesting facts
Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind is a 1980 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed and co-written by Tsui Hark. It follows a group of teenagers who engage in a crime spree in Hong Kong, but stumble into a dangerous group of international arms traffickers.
Production
Tsui Hark hired Lin Chen-Chi after seeing her work in films produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and noticing that her face was catlike.
The score for the film was taken from various sources including Goblin's soundtrack to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead and Jean-Michel Jarre's album Oxygène.
According to actor Pierre Tremblay, the actor playing the lead gunrunner Nigel was not a professional actor, but an off-duty Royal Hong Kong Police officer.
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