Above the law 1986 yuen biao biography

Hong Kong film

Righting Wrongs (Chinese: 執法先鋒; Jyutping: Zap Faat Sin Fung) is a Hong Kong action film produced and directed by Corey Yuen, and also produced by and starring Yuen Biao, both of whom also serve as the film's action 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 he made without film industry compatriots Sammo Hung and Jackie Chan.

Plot

Jason Ha Ling-ching is a dedicated, by the books prosecutor who has tried to maintain patience and tolerance under the somewhat flimsy laws of the court. However, when his mentor is publicly gunned down in New Zealand and the key witness of Ha's latest case and his entire family is wiped out overnight, Ha can no longer go by the book.

Ha's initial plan is to take the law into his own hands and kill the two men he believes called for his witness' murder. He is successful in killing the first, which causes the Hong Kong Police Department to wake up and take action to regain order. Enter Senior Inspector Cindy Si, who is put on the case to find the killer under her superior, Superintendent Wong Ching-wai. However, when Ha goes to kill the second defendant, Chow Ting-kwong, he is already dead. Unbeknownst to them, both of the defendants were working under an even higher power, known only as "Crown". However, it is soon discovered that "Crown" is none other than Superintendent Wong, who was also Chow's killer.

Once Si realizes that Wong is the true mastermind behind all of the recent murders taking place, she and Ha finally work together to bring him in to prove he is not "above the law". Si storms through 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 a plane. Ha kills Wong with an axe to the back of the neck and jumps off the plane before it crash

There would be few out there who’d argue that, in the world of kung fu cinema, the names of Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, and Yuen Biao will forever be imprinted. Collectively known as the Three Dragons, between them the trio have headlined some of the defining movies of the genre, and even more when you count their experience behind the camera. Having studied at the same Peking Opera school under the tutelage of Yu Jim-Yuen, it was during the ’s that their popularity sky-rocketed, and throughout the decade they’d appear on the big screen together a total of 6 times. It was Project A, Meals on Wheels, and Dragons Forever that became the defining moments of their shared outings (with the other 3 being entries in Sammo Hung’s Lucky Stars comedy franchise), with the latter continuing to be the final time they shared the screen as of the time of writing.

Part of this was down to a well-documented underlying tension during the filming of Dragons Forever. By this point Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung had both become goliaths in the world of Hong Kong action cinema, and the mutual collaboration of their earlier productions had here turned into something more like a professional rivalry (which was ironically a win for the audience, as their respective stunt teams attempted to outdo each other in the fall heavy finale!). As a result Yuen Biao, the youngest and most passive of the trio, often feels like he’s side-lined in the final product, a feeling which was echoed by his own opinions towards the production.

By the time the 90’s rolled around Jackie and Sammo’s careers followed the expected paths. Jackie began to aggressively target the U.S. market, first with limited success thanks to ’s Rumble in the Bronx, and then striking box office gold with ’s Rush Hour, kicking off a string of Hollywood starring

Before you even ask, I&#;ll make it clear that this is NOT about the film titled &#;Above the Law&#; starring Steven Seagal. Nothing against that movie, as it was one of Stevie&#;s better films, before he got totally ridiculous, but the film I am writing about is the movie of the same title (originally &#;Zhi fa xian feng&#; and also released in Hong Kong with the English title &#;Righting Wrongs&#;) directed by Corey Yuen. This 80&#;s classic of lesser-known stature in the West can be considered a significant influence in the type of action movies we Westerners would see made in the following years leading into the 90&#;s. In this first feature in a limited series focusing on the re-released martial arts and action flicks from Dragon Dynasty, I take an in-depth look at Corey Yuen&#;s Above the Law ().

As I playfully mentioned above, this is not the Steven Seagal film, but one can certainly see the influence this movie had on the Seagal film which appeared two years later. Corey Yuen&#;s film follows a prosecutor named Hsia (Baio Yuen) who decides to take the law into his own hands when he realizes that the justice system is flawed and allows for too many dangerous criminals to escape punishment. His methods are carefully planned and are reserved for only the most severe offenders. However, when the death toll begins to rise, a special investigator named Cindy is brought in to track down the vigilante. The snag is that this new string of murders are not the work of Biao, but he&#;s quickly framed and accused by Cindy, played by Cynthia Rothrock. With this begins an action-packed story with one cop after another cop while the real killer is allowed to run free and unhindered in his ruthless killing spree. It turns out that there&#;s a good guy/bad guy twist to the story and the question of who the bad guy is gets blurred a bit, allowing for a bit of mystery to the story, albeit somewhat predictable.

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