Dung fong tuk ying (1987)

User Rating:

7.1/10   

Director:

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Writer:

Barry Wong (writer)

Release Date:

9 July 1987 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Action | Drama | War

Plot:

An action film about a daring commando raid into Vietnam to destroy a munitions dump left behind by American marines.

Plot Keywords:

Vietnam | Commando | Chinese American | Russian Roulette

Awards:

3 nominations

Cast

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo	...	Ming-Sun Tung
Biao Yuen	...	Man Yen Chieh
Haing S. Ngor	...	Yeung Lung
Joyce Godenzi	...	Guerrilla Girl #1
Chi Chun Ha	...	Guerrila Girl #3
Ching-Ying Lam	...	Lieutenant
Melvin Wong	...	Colonel Yang
Charlie Chin	...	Szeto Chin
Kwok Keung Cheung	...	Ching
Billy Lau	...	Ching (as Lan Guang Lau)
Woo-ping Yuen	...	Yun, Yen-Hoy
Corey Yuen	...	Judy Vu (as Kwai Yuen)
Lung Chan	...	Potato Head
Wah Yuen	...	Giggling General
Yasuaki Kurata	...	General's elite soldier

Also Known As:

Eastern Condors (Hong Kong: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and some language.

Runtime:

USA:93 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:18 (cut) | New Zealand:M (cut) | Australia:R (cut) | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Canada

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

Most of the sequences in this movie were filmed for real, with the actors actually making full physical contact during the fight scenes.

Movie Connections:

Featured in The Best of the Martial Arts Films (1990)

Cool war fu movie

Eastern Condors is a war movie which is filled to the brim with cool action and great kung fu acrobatics. A contingent of Chinese-Americans go to Vietnam just after the end of the Vietnam War in 1976 to find and blow up a U.S. weapons cache. As they arrive they are joined by three female Cambodian guerrilla warriors, the leader of which being played by the stunningly gorgeous and superbly kung fu capable Joyce Godenzi, who's only made a few movies (a friend tells me that she probably retired from movie-making after marrying Sammo Hung).

Yuen Biao is very cool in it, though his role could have been larger. The main spotlight goes to Sammo Hung, whose character is aflame with constant guerrilla action, and to him also goes the final showdown with Yuen Wah.

All in all, a very cool Sammo Hung actioner. The story and its execution are strictly speaking not great, but the action makes it eminently watchable. I rate the movie a 7 for the overall story, with an added point for Joyce Godenzi's coolness.

Thus, 8 out of 10.