Zodiac Killers
Zodiac Killers (極道追蹤)
Year : 1991
Director : .Ann Hui
Cast
Andy Lau as Ben
Cherie Chung as Mang Tit-lan (鐵蘭))
Plot
Hong Kong student Ben(Andy Lau) becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ben and Chih’s friend, Ming, is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa’s brother in-law.
In Yuriko’s bar, Ben encounters Chinese student Mang Tit-lan,( Cherie Chung )who is there to earn some extra money, and falls in love with her at first sight but is not favored. Tit-lan and her friend Mei-mei live with their guarantor and suffers a lot of humiliation.
Tit-lan is in love with Hideyuki Asano, who works as Yamada’s top assassin, who went to South America to kill Yamada’s enemy, but eventually came back to reunite with Tit-lan. However, Yamada send his men to have Asano silenced and right before he dies, he asks Tit-lan to expose Yamada to the police but Tit-lan faces the underworld’s pursue to kill her.
Since Tit-lan’s passport was detained by her guarantor, Ben had to help her sneak out of Japan on a boat, but the thugs arrive right after hearing the news. Ben and Tit-lan attempt to leave the oppressing country.
Theme song
Red Dream (紅塵夢)
Composer: Wong Sze-yuen
Lyricist: Thomas Chow
Singer: Andy Lau