In The Line of Duty 1 - 4 :

 Disc 1 - In the Line of Duty: Royal Warriors (1986);
Disc 2 - In the Line of Duty 2: Yes, Madam! (1985);
Disc 3 - In the Line of Duty 3 (1988)
Disc 4 - In the Line of Duty 4 (1989)

US 88 Films 4 disc 2023 Blu-ray collection - Region A

The Blu-ray Box comes with a Booklet and a Poster

Finally restored Blu-ray editions of this legendary 80's film series that introduced
the great Hong Kong Girls With Guns genre and with tough female cops and lots
and lots of martial arts fighting. Films from the glorious Golden Era of HK filmmaking.

Above: Book with text and pictures

This film series was a Hit in Hong Kong and besides presenting the new film genre
"Female Fighters Girls with Guns" it also were the film debut of The Queen of Martial
Arts - Goddess Cynthia Rothrock, the action film debut of Malaysian ballet dancer
and beauty queen - Michelle Yeoh, and the action film debut of Taiwanese actress
Cynthia Khan. Also, a young Donnie Yen can be seen doing his stuff in no. 4, Tsui
Hark doing comedy stuff in no. 2, Michael Wong being annoying in no. 1 and 4.
This nice bluray box edition has a lot of extras as interviews and audio commentaries


 


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 there, 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 off 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

 
 
Back to Female Fighters Film Page