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Genres:
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Action /
Adventure /
Music
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Director:
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Philippe Martinez
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Actors:
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Philip Tan,
Valerie Tian,
Tony Schiena,
Danny Keogh,
Warrick Grier,
Claude Hernandez,
Lisa King,
Anthony Fridjohn,
Pierre Marais,
Jacqui Chan,
Joon Chong,
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Simon Yam,
Tom Wu,
Burt Kwouk
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Duration:
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86 min.
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Rating:
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(5.5/10)105
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Plot Summary:
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In China, the filly Kim witnesses the murder of her protect at hand her mobster father Bronze knick-knacks Quan and escapes to Los Angeles in a boat with other wrongful immigrants. The get out is intercepted before the US Immigration Department, and the group proletarian Cynthia Archer decides to troop Kim at her internal with her husband, the bouncer Ben Archer, and their son Nicholas. Sun Quan comes to USA, and with the support of the lewd chief of Lisa, he gets the information where his daughter is and uses the Chinese triad to kill Cynthia and her Chinese stepparents in their restaurant i... n Chinatown. Extent, Nicholas and Kim escape from the killers, and Ben calls his beau to their own medicine the death of his beloved wife.
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