Operazione Tigre

Operazione Tigre (1996)

White Tiger

Due poliziotti, amici per la pelle, indagano sulla malavita cinese della loro città. In un agguato teso dai killer delle "Triadi" uno di loro rimane ucciso. Il suo collega, sopravvissuto miracolosamente all'agguato, è deciso a vendicare la morte del compagno. A questo scopo si infiltra nella comunità cinese dove trova una pista che porta a una setta segreta dedita alle arti marziali. Una volta individuati i killer, dovrà affrontarli con le loro stesse armi. Sulla falsariga di Chuck Norris, Van Damme & C., l'ennesimo esemplare del filone dei poliziotti pronti a menare le mani.

Data di uscita
1996-04-03
TMDB
5.4 / 10 (27)
Durata
1 h 33 min
Generi
Azione
Regista
Richard Martin

Cast

Curiosità

White Tiger is a 1996 Canadian action film directed by Richard Martin, starring Gary Daniels, Julia Nickson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, George Cheung and Lisa Langlois. Daniels stars as a disenfranchised DEA agent looking to eliminate the triad boss (Tagawa) responsible for the death of his partner, while succumbing to the charms of a mysterious woman (Nickson) who may be a killer herself.

Production

White Tiger started filming in Hong Kong under the name Tiger Storm. The film was then produced by East West Pictures, a company created by British expatriate martial artist Mark Houghton and local businessman Ed Maher, both of whom had made a number of tough guy appearances in local films. Houghton reached out to fellow Briton and former student, Impact magazine writer Bey Logan.

Robert Vince of Canadian company Keystone Entertainment bought out the embattled investors. Thanks to Daniels' appeal and a sizzle reel made from the original footage, he managed to raise enough money for an entirely new shoot.

The rebooted film started shooting in June 1995, and spanned several locales across British Columbia, Canada. Daniels choreographed the fight sequences himself. The villain's main henchman was played by Ron Yuan, whom he asked the production to bring over from Los Angeles, as the two had remained friends following their first experience working together on Ring of Fire.

Villain Victor Chow's lair was located aboard the SS Prince George, a passenger ship turned floating hotel docked in Britannia Beach while waiting to be sold. Although spectacular, the fiery explosions rocking the deck during the film's finale were not meant to damage its structure, and the ship remained afloat in the shoot's immediate aftermath.

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