Disc 3. In the
Line of Duty 3: Yes, Madam! (Royal Big Sister
III: Male and Female Thieves, 1988)
Direction: Arthur Wong and Brandy Yuen
Taiwanese ex-ballet dancer Cynthia Khan (Yang Li Qing/Yeung
Lai Ching) became one of the icons of
the Girls with Guns film wave that emanated from Hong Kong in the second
half of the 1980's.
Her actor name alias is a mix of the legendary fighters Cynthia Rothrock
and Michelle Yeoh, and Khan
went through tough training to become The One who could supersede the
Malaysian star Michelle Yeoh
in the popular "In the Line of Duty" film series. Khan works
really hard and even though she's not as
agile as Yeoh she "looks" slightly stronger, more physical,
maybe.
Cynthia Khan plays the Hong Kong rookie cop Yeung Lai-Ching
and in the fabulous intro to the film she
stops a robber from getting away by using her martial arts moves (in
"In the Line of Duty 2" Michelle
Yeoh stopped a gang of robbers). Mr. Paul Chung is the police inspector
and as his unsolved cases are
starting to pile up the higher brass gives him extra help. As Lai-Ching
did so well as a rookie street cop
she's assigned to the task and she's the new member of the Serious Crime
unit.
But, as she's Chung's niece he always worries about her safety and he
tries to hold her back all the time,
good luck with that, as a duo of japanese robbers is about to cause
havoc in Hong Kong.
Above: Reversible sleeve
The japanese jewel designer Yamamoto is having a display of his latest
collection in Tokyo, with not
just VIP guests but also a horde of guards. But two bestial japanese
robbers and terrorists, Kazuo
Nakagawa (Stuart Ong) and Michiko Nishiwaki (played by Michiko Nishiwaki)
who also both are
members of the terrorist organisation The Red Army, attacks and robs
the Jewellery show. They do
so by showing inhuman violence and slaughtering a mass of guards, cops
and guests. The japanese
cop Hiroshi Fujioka (played by Hiroshi Fujioka) loses his buddy cop
colleague who's shot by the
perps. The robbers finances the terror organisation with the loot and
Fujioka suspects Yamamoto
to be in cahoots with the robbers. Yamamoto is to powerful to arrest
in Japan, so Fujioka will try and
get to him when Yamamoto returns to Hong Kong.
Above: Old Hong Kong DVD in letterbox ratio and with
cantonese 5.1 audio with english subs
So back to Hong Kong where not just Yamamoto is but
also the terrorist duo is hiding, and Fujioka
who's going full vigilante when he tries to avenge his dead colleague.
The bloodbath continues
with bloody shootouts whereby Lai-Ching manages to kill one of the robbers,
Nakagawa and now
Dick Wei turns up, another terrorist who teams up with Nishiwaki. Both
of them out for revenge
on Lai-Ching and the Hong Kong police. The film is a more violent crime
action than No. 1 and 2
The film is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen
and with cantonese 2.0 mono or english mono audio.
Region A release.
English subtitles to be turned on and ff from the remote.
Extras: Audio commentary by Frank Djeng and Michael Worth, Interview
with John Sham (in
english, 25 minutes, Hong Kong and English trailer
