The Man from Hong Kong (1975) on Netflix
R19751h 46mActionAdventureCrime
A courier tied to Sydney's underworld is arrested in Australia, and Hong Kong's Special Branch sends Inspector Fang Sing Leng, a kung fu expert, to question him. The man will not talk.
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Plot summary
Bob Taylor, an inspector with the Australian Federal Narcotics Bureau, tackles a Chinese courier named Win Chan during an undercover operation at Ayers Rock. Chan speaks no English and refuses to answer questions, so the Royal Hong Kong Police Force sends Inspector Fang Sing Leng, one of its Special Branch officers, to Sydney to help with the extradition. Before leaving, Fang meets the journalist Caroline Thorne, who lands at his training school in a hang glider, and they agree to see each other again in Sydney. There he works with Taylor and Sergeant Morrie Grosse, questions Chan, and traces the courier's employer to Jack Wilton, a businessman whose import and export trade and martial arts school serve as a front.
Cast
- Deryck Barnesas Veterinary Doctor
- Ian Jamiesonas Drug Courier
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Man from Hong Kong (1975)
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- The Man from Hong Kong was originally conceived as a vehicle for Bruce Lee, but after Lee's death it was reconfigured as Jimmy Wang Yu's English-language debut.
- Both of its stars were hurt during the shoot: Jimmy Wang Yu was injured in a hang gliding sequence, and George Lazenby suffered severe burns on his hands during a fight scene.
- Director Brian Trenchard-Smith called star Jimmy Wang Yu difficult to deal with and the shoot hard, describing a great clash of personalities and mutual distrust in which both sides thought the other was trying to rip them off.
- The Man from Hong Kong was the first Australian/Hong Kong co-production, made during the height of the kung fu film craze and the Australian New Wave.
- The Australian National Film and Sound Archive restored it, and it has since drawn a cult following as a key film of the Ozploitation cycle, appearing in the 2008 documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!.
