Luo Kang (Jimmy Wang Yu) is a tough-as-nails private investigator who works alongside his bumbling reporter childhood friend.
Luo Kang is assigned to an initially standard case of adultery and is to gather evidence of a cheating husband. This links him to a young lady named Donna, a nightclub performer who is soon being used as a drug dealer and mule for Kamizawa, head of a powerful Tokyo + Taipei cartel (which includes some old school faces such as Chen Hung Lieh and, frequent Wang Yu collaborator, Lung Fei).
After saving her life, Luo Kang and Donna become romantically involved but it isn't long before the cartel want Luo out of the picture and their popular starlet back.
Clash of the Professionals may well be one of my favourite Jimmy Wang Yu films. The action is tough, exciting and varied with some locations you don't often seen in a kung fu flick e.g. The fights in an ice hockey rink and another taking place in a ski resort are particular highights. There's also a decent motorbike chase thrown in for good measure with Wang Yu handling some pretty dangerous stunts on his own.
The pace is more or less non-stop , the action is hard-hitting (women are roughed up, a rival drug dealer is stabbed through the head, innocent pedestrians are mowed down) and the 'borrowed' music from various sources is used to good effect (inc. Goblin and even Ollie And Jerry's 'There's No Stopping Us' (!) ),
Strong recommendation for fans of 80's Taiwanese action !
Luo Kang is assigned to an initially standard case of adultery and is to gather evidence of a cheating husband. This links him to a young lady named Donna, a nightclub performer who is soon being used as a drug dealer and mule for Kamizawa, head of a powerful Tokyo + Taipei cartel (which includes some old school faces such as Chen Hung Lieh and, frequent Wang Yu collaborator, Lung Fei).
After saving her life, Luo Kang and Donna become romantically involved but it isn't long before the cartel want Luo out of the picture and their popular starlet back.
Clash of the Professionals may well be one of my favourite Jimmy Wang Yu films. The action is tough, exciting and varied with some locations you don't often seen in a kung fu flick e.g. The fights in an ice hockey rink and another taking place in a ski resort are particular highights. There's also a decent motorbike chase thrown in for good measure with Wang Yu handling some pretty dangerous stunts on his own.
The pace is more or less non-stop , the action is hard-hitting (women are roughed up, a rival drug dealer is stabbed through the head, innocent pedestrians are mowed down) and the 'borrowed' music from various sources is used to good effect (inc. Goblin and even Ollie And Jerry's 'There's No Stopping Us' (!) ),
Strong recommendation for fans of 80's Taiwanese action !