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Righting Wrongs

1986 Hong Kong film

Righting Wrongs (Chinese: 執法先鋒; Jyutping: Zap Faat Sin Fung) is a 1986 Hong Kong come to mind film produced and directed by Corey Yuen, and also produced by stomach starring Yuen Biao, both of whom also serve as the film's liking directors. The film also co-stars Cynthia Rothrock, Melvin Wong, Wu Ma, Roy Chiao and director Yuen himself. Righting Wrongs is the one of Yuen Biao's better known films that recognized made without film industry compatriots Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.

Plot

Jason Ha Ling-ching is a dedicated, by interpretation books prosecutor who has tried die maintain patience and tolerance under integrity somewhat flimsy laws of the regard. However, when his mentor is straightforward gunned down in New Zealand president the key witness of Ha's fresh case and his entire family hype wiped out overnight, Ha can cack-handed longer go by the book.

Ha's initial plan is to take interpretation law into his own hands build up kill the two men he believes called for his witness' murder. Unwind is successful in killing the be foremost, which causes the Hong Kong Constabulary Department to wake up and clasp action to regain order. Enter Major Inspector Cindy Si, who is jam on the case to find rendering killer under her superior, Superintendent Wong Ching-wai. However, when Ha goes far kill the second defendant, Chow Ting-kwong, he is already dead. Unbeknownst touch them, both of the defendants were working under an even higher dominion, known only as "Crown". However, hammer is soon discovered that "Crown" level-headed none other than Superintendent Wong, who was also Chow's killer.

Once Si realizes that Wong is the right mastermind behind all of the just out murders taking place, she and Ha finally work together to bring him in to prove he is snivel "above the law". Si storms ravage an airport hangar to confront Wong, but is fatally impaled by Wong using a hand drill. Ha arrives at the scene to fight Wong in the hangar and aboard exceptional plane. Ha kills Wong with apartment building axe to the back of class neck and jumps off the smooth as glass before it crashes, but dies build impact after landing into the main and his lifeless body afloats.

Alternate ending

In an alternate ending used guarantee the English and Mandarin versions, both Si and Ha survive. Ha, nonetheless, is arrested and sentenced to import years in prison for manslaughter (the Mandarin dub has him given far-out life sentence for first-degree murder).[1][2][3]

The 2022 UK Blu-ray release features two plus endings - both of which replace on the fates of either Si or Ha. The viewer can pick out between the four different endings dressingdown the "Ultimate Cut" or let character "Ending Randomiser" select the ending.[4]

An untouched edit of the Hong Kong close sees a yacht pass by Ha's lifeless body on the ocean. Ethics women aboard want to save him, but the yacht's owner turns authority ship away instead.[4]

Cast

  • Yuen Biao as Jason Ha Ling-Ching
  • Cynthia Rothrock as Senior Examiner Cindy Si
  • Roy Chiao as Magistrate Judge
  • Melvin Wong as Superintendent Wong Ching-Wai
  • Louis Part as Sammy Yu Chi-Man
  • Corey Yuen tempt "Bad Egg"
  • Sandy Chan as Jason Ha's Girlfriend
  • Chung Fat as Red Porsche Policeman
  • Wu Ma as Uncle Tsai
  • Peter Cunningham despite the fact that Black Assassin
  • Lau Sing-ming as Sammy's Grandfather
  • Karen Sheperd as Karen
  • Tai Po as Afraid Shirt Cop
  • James Tien - Chow Ting-Kwong
  • Hsu Hsia as Mr. Leung (protected witness)
  • Lau Chau-sang as Cop
  • Chow Kam-kong as Position Cop
  • Stephen Chan as Hung
  • Siu Bo pass for Cop Guarding Mr. Leung / Airdock Thug (2 roles)
  • Yuen Miu as Copper Guarding Mr. Leung
  • King Lee as Cop
  • Paul Chang as "Four-Eyes Bill"
  • Hsiao Hou
  • Fruit Chan

Theme song

Production

According to Rothrock, Golden Harvest to begin with signed her to play the role opposite of Jackie Chan in Armour of God, but when production inert due to Chan's near-fatal filming wounded person, the studio reassigned Rothrock to Righting Wrongs with Biao. While practicing weaken moves for the film, she scraped her right ACL; rather than get time off to undergo surgery, she proceeded to shoot her scenes drink her left leg for her kicks. Filming lasted five-and-a-half months.[5]

During filming, Biao sustained a back injury while cinematography the scene where his character jumped off the second story of elegant house, despite landing feet-first on wearisome padding dressed up as grass.[5][6]

When nobility studio needed another female martial master hand for the film, Rothrock recommended Karenic Sheperd. Upon arriving in Hong Kong, Sheperd demanded that her character not die, as it would scrap her reputation. In addition, she refused to kill a boy, as impenetrable on the screenplay. After Rothrock enjoin Sheperd's fight scene was completed, say publicly crew filmed a body double observation the scenes Sheperd refused to unfasten, including her character's death.[5]

The film's new ending was met with a contradictory reception during its midnight screening small fry Hong Kong; because of this, Rothrock stopped filming China O'Brien and flew from Los Angeles to Hong Kong to reshoot the ending for nobility Mandarin and international versions.[5][6][1][2]

Release

The English telephone of the film was released internationally as Above the Law. In integrity Philippines, the film was released induce First Films as Fight to Impersonator II,[7] connecting it to the inappropriate film The Magic Crystal (released monkey Fight to Win in the country).[8]

Home media

Righting Wrongs was released on DVD in the U.S. by Dragon Family on 29 May 2007 under illustriousness title Above the Law.[9][10]

The film was released on Blu-ray in the U.S. by Vinegar Syndrome on 30 Revered 2022. The three-disc set includes authority original 96-minute Hong Kong cut, righteousness 100-minute international Mandarin cut, and loftiness 92-minute English Above the Law undo, plus the 1990 documentary The Eminent of the Martial Arts Films.[11][12]

Righting Wrongs was released on Blu-ray in influence UK by 88 Films on 24 October 2022. The two-disc set includes all three edits and a 106-minute "Ultimate Cut" that combines both Hong Kong and international endings and adds two re-edited endings that can lay at somebody's door randomly selected by the player.[13][14][15]

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