Women on the Run
1993 · 1h 29m · N/A
Action, Thriller
Directed by
Corey Yuen
,
David Lai Tai-wai
Overview
A young woman named Yin dreams of leaving her modest village life for a chance to try to make it big as a martial arts movie star. Leaving for the big city with her boyfriend, life takes a turn for poor Yin when she soon finds herself addicted to drugs and being pimped out by her boyfriend. After a violent altercation forces Yin to flee to Hong Kong, it's not long before she ends up on the radar of the police. Without any other options, Yin makes a deal with the police to go undercover with one of their straight-laced female detectives, Hung, in order to try and bring down a notorious drug dealer nicknamed "King Kong." Victimized by the men in their lives, the two unlikely friends must team up to protect each other from the criminals out to get them and work together to get revenge on those who have betrayed them.
Director and cast
- Corey Yuen Director
- David Lai Tai-wai Director
- Farini Cheung Yui-ling as Hung
- Tamara Guo as Li Siu-Yin
- Won Jin as King Kong
- Corey Yuen as Officer Pun
- David Lai Tai-wai as David Cheung
- Wong Wai-tak as Brother Chiu
- Chan Sek as King Kong's Right Hand Man
- Johnny Cheung Wa as King Kong's Thug
- Benny Lai Keung-kuen as King Kong's Thug
- Adam Chan Chung-Tai as King Kong's Thug
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