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L'Enfer des armes

Original title: Di yi lei xing wei xian
  • 1980
  • 12
  • 1h 35m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
1.3K
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L'Enfer des armes (1980)
ActionCrimeThriller

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four cri... Read allThree lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

  • Director
    • Hark Tsui
  • Writers
    • Cheuk-Hon Szeto
    • Hark Tsui
  • Stars
    • Lo Lieh
    • Chen-Chi Lin
    • Albert Au
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.3/10
    1.3K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Hark Tsui
    • Writers
      • Cheuk-Hon Szeto
      • Hark Tsui
    • Stars
      • Lo Lieh
      • Chen-Chi Lin
      • Albert Au
    • 9User reviews
    • 17Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
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    Lo Lieh
    Lo Lieh
    • Tan
    • (as Lieh Lo)
    Chen-Chi Lin
    Chen-Chi Lin
    • Pearl
    Albert Au
    • Paul
    Tin Sang Lung
    Tin Sang Lung
    • Lung
    Paul Che
    Paul Che
    • Ko
    • (as Biu Law Che)
    Ray Lui
    Ray Lui
    • Inspector Lui
    Bruce Baron
    Bruce Baron
    • Bruce
    Kwok-Ming Cheung
    • Interpol Officer
    Man-Ching Chong
    • Social Worker
    Shing-Choi Chu
    • Paul's Mother
    Richard Da Silva
    • Uncle Hark
    Deanie lp
    Deanie lp
    • Police Officer
    • (as Deannie Yip)
    Nigel Falgate
    • Nigel
    Ping Fong
    Ping Fong
    • Woman at Identification parade
    Oi-Tsu Fung
    • Bank Clerk
    Yun-Chuen Fung
    • Paul's father
    Yeuk-Hon Gei
    Si Git Hau
    • Director
      • Hark Tsui
    • Writers
      • Cheuk-Hon Szeto
      • Hark Tsui
    • All cast & crew
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    10udar55

    Tsui Hark's masterpiece?

    Three friends out for a night of fun in daddy's car accidentally kill a pedestrian. The only witness is young, psychotic girl who decides to blackmail them. She forces the boys to participate in her misanthropic deeds, which eventually bring them into some Japanese bank notes for 800 million yen that belong to some illegal arms dealers. Wow, this is one psychotic movie! DON'T PLAY WITH FIRE (aka DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS: 1ST KIND) is Tsui Hark's third film and it is one angry movie. Opening with the scene of a mouse having a pin shoved into its head (sadly, for real), Hark makes modern day Hong Kong look like hell on earth with its grimy streets and claustrophobic apartment buildings. I'd like to think he is making a statement on class warfare, but Hark just seems like he wants to destroy everything in a wave of nihilistic fury. A final shootout in an equally crowded cemetery is the film's highlight. The score is stolen from all over the place. Tracks I identified were from Goblin (off the DAWN OF THE DEAD soundtrack), Jean Michel Jarre, and the disco band The Mike Theodore Orchestra. I actually wish Hark made more modern day stuff like this as I got tired of his costume kung fu drama porn rather quickly.
    7Jeremy_Urquhart

    Bleak, strange, confronting, compelling, and uneven.

    Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind is wild. I kind of found it engaging and maybe entertaining (not sure if that's the right word) but it also might be easiest to respect/admire than enjoy in the traditional sense. It's about three wannabe terrorists who are also kind of losers, and then a more ruthless girl catches onto the stuff they're doing, and she kind of pushes the entire group to do worse things. Then things get more chaotic, they make a lot of enemies, and the level of violence/death just increases as it goes along.

    It's blunt, but it does leave me feeling more than most movies that could be described as simple. There is a quality to it that makes it special, even though I didn't like all the decisions it made creatively or content-wise. It's definitely meant to unravel and feel chaotic, and looking back, that whole structure is easier to appreciate, but it did leave me wanting a bit in the moment.

    It's a tricky film to talk about, and a trickier one to recommend, but it was something different and I liked it enough for that alone.
    934low

    Dangerous spiral

    I love the heroine of this movie. She, a beautiful teen-age sister of a cop, is in fact a fiery, sadistic psychopath who dominates hapless (and spineless) threesome of students and forces them to participate in her reckless criminal scheme.

    Even though the heroine is totally amoral, and sadistic etc., we can't but root for her because she is fearless and puts up a lone fight against..., against everything. She is motivated by dark and formless anger, and she controls (or tries to control) three students through fear and greed. This relationship between the girl and the threesome is the most interesting aspect of the film.

    Their dangerous game leads to the involvement with organized crime (the triad?) and to the dire conclusion. The last twenty or so minutes of the film is truly gruesome.

    The other characters in film are pretty two-dimensional --- the villains are mere killing machines, and the cop, the brother of the heroine, is also rather stereotypical loner cop. But the dangerous and out-of-control spiral of the four main characters is riveting to watch.
    ChWasser

    This film leaves you speechless

    I can only agree with the preceding comments; this really is the most nihilistic movie I've ever seen (comparable only to Sergio Corbucci's "Il grande silenzio" in that respect) and the heroine is very likeable indeed, although the name Pearl is VERY inapt. The scene where she completely unmotivatedly throws a cat out of the window was too much even for Hong Kong's censor boards which rarely cut out a scene for being too violent. Another scene that I'll never forget was when she set the car of the 'gwailo' (those sunglasses!) on fire. The definition of recklessness and defiance of death.

    Someone please release this film in PAL-format, either on VHS, VCD or DVD. I've seen it only once and I'm desperate to see it again. Please!!!
    8fartsohoelle

    Don't try this at home !!!

    I never believed in rebirth, but italian freak cinema of the 70ies lived on in a lot of Hong Kong flicks of the 80ies. If you like animals, human life or are a fan of political correctness you should NOT watch this movie. If you like explotation movies, italian cinema and have mental problems like me, GO FOR IT. It really has a good script, lot of twists, overall good acting and is very well made. What I really missed are car chases between Alfa Romeo's and BMW's, Tomas Milian, Henry Silva and a score from let's say Stelvio Cipriani, then it would be perfect, but you can't have it all. Hardcore entertainment par excellence (really).

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    • Trivia
      According to actor Pierre Tremblay, Nigel Falgate, who played the lead gun runner Nigel, was not a professional actor, but an off-duty Hong Kong police officer who appeared in the film 'without official permission'. This is why his face is obscured throughout the film.
    • Alternate versions
      Tsui Hark's original version was banned by Hong Kong censors. Several subplots had to be removed (in the original, the three teenagers plant self-built bombs in public places for the fun of it) and scenes were re-shot. The DVD-release by HK Video in France includes both the original and the modified version.
    • Connections
      Referenced in Dead Easy (1982)
    • Soundtracks
      Alba Dei Morti Viventi
      (uncredited)

      Performed by Goblin

      Taken from their "Zombi - Dawn of the Dead" soundtrack

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    • Release date
      • December 4, 1980 (Hong Kong)
    • Country of origin
      • Hong Kong
    • Languages
      • English
      • Cantonese
    • Also known as
      • Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind
    • Production company
      • Fotocine Film Production Limited
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    • Runtime
      • 1h 35m(95 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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