Pippi Movies / Recommended for a wonderful movie every day
In the late 1990s, Hong Kong film industry was changing. Double Mondays became the second place. Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat went to Hollywood.
Jet Li, the most successful in the Mainland to Hong Kong, also joined the Hollywood movie "Sky Cannon 4" in 1998 and officially went to the United States for development.
"King of Killers", released on April 3, 1998, became Jet Li's last Hong Kong-produced film, and it was also his first live recording using his own original sound instead of dubbing. The film is directed by Dong Wei and brings together three stars: Ren Dahua, Zeng Zhiwei, and Gigi Leung. The story of
tells that in the past four years, a killer nicknamed Seraphim appeared in Southeast Asia. It is said that Seraphim has six wings and is the angel in charge of punishment by God. The killer
is exactly what the name suggests. He is alone and will not receive any rewards, only the damned person. It is suspected that 17 people have been killed by him, but no one has ever been able to catch him. Therefore, he is very famous in the arena and is honored as the "King of Killers".
One day, the Seraph ran into the Tsukamoto Building at night and killed Tsukamoto who was a Japanese soldier who had committed heinous crimes in China.
Tsukamoto is a person who is very afraid of death. In order to protect himself, he set up a Tsukamoto hospice fund with 100 million US dollars and made his will early.
If the cause of his death was murder, the fund will immediately start operating, and use the 100 million dollars to reward the person who can avenge him.
Since Tsukamoto was killed by Seraphim, his Tsukamoto Hospice Fund was immediately activated, and Seraphim became the target of killers all over the world.
Jet Li plays the little rich man who has been a "black rat" (killer) from the Mainland to Hong Kong. Although he is an extraordinary veteran, he has a kind heart and has not committed a crime in Hong Kong for a long time.
When he learned that the Tsukamoto family offered a reward of 100 million dollars to hunt down the murderer, Xiaofu, with the mentality of giving it a try, went to Tsukamoto Building to try his luck, but was stopped by security guards because of his rags. At this time,
suddenly killed an old man named Crocodile Guy (played by Zeng Zhiwei), stopped the conflict between the security and Xiaofu, and took Xiaofu into the venue in the Tsukamoto Building.
Originally, all those who participated in this murderer hunting game had to pay a 5 million deposit to exclude those who used to fill up their numbers. The Tsukamoto Hospice Foundation used the 5 million to open an anonymous account in Swiss Bank for everyone. Those who can complete the task will automatically deposit the bonus into this account. Among the 100 million dollars of
, the killer and the mastermind are each worth 50 million dollars. If it is the same person, this person is worth 100 million; if one of them dies naturally, the bonus will automatically accumulate to the other person.
Tsukamoto's grandson Eiji Tsukamoto, inherited his grandfather's ferocious character, and is also a dangerous figure full of militarism.
He also participated in this killing game, vowing to find out the real murderer himself and avenge his grandpa.
The police are also paying close attention to this case. Police Chen Sir (played by Ren Dahua) investigated all the participants one by one and found that the gangster is the most special one.
His original name was Yue Lu, and his crime file was one inch thick. When he was young, he committed crimes of assault and theft, sold pirated video tapes, and was arrested recently for being an old man. Why is a person like
who cheats eating and drinking everywhere using his house as a mortgage, borrowing 5 million yuan from the bank to participate in this game? The answer to
soon surfaced. When the Tsukamoto Homosexuality Foundation examined Tsukamoto's body, it found a rotten military ticket in his stomach. According to investigations, this military ticket is the collection of Uncle Leung in a Hong Kong housing estate.
The assassins who participated in the game quickly rushed to the estate. Crocodile and Xiaofu also rushed to the scene, fighting to rescue Uncle Liang, the assassins, and Eiji's bodyguards.
In the end, Uncle Liang died suddenly while fleeing. This surprised the Crocodile, and Xiaofu also saw that the Crocodile must have something to hide. When
returned home, Xiaofu forced the crocodile guy to tell the truth-
turned out to be Uncle Liang’s unshakable enemy. When the Japanese occupied Hong Kong, Tsukamoto once killed Uncle Liang.Family. When Uncle Liang learned of the Tsukamoto family's investment and development in Hong Kong, he thought it was an opportunity for revenge, so he advertised in the newspaper looking for a killer.
When this advertisement was seen by a crocodile guy, he found Uncle Liang who wanted to lie to him for money, but Uncle Liang had no money, only a bunch of useless military tickets.
originally gave up on this matter, but then someone actually bought those military tickets from Uncle Liang for 200,000.
Uncle Liang found the crocodile again, and wanted the crocodile to avenge him. Of course, the crocodile guy didn't dare to take risks for him, so he wanted to perfuse him by giving him a bank account number and telling him that when he saw the news that the Japanese died, he would deposit the money in this account.
Who knows that Tsukamoto was really killed, and the 200,000 yuan was actually deposited in the crocodile's account.
in this way became the target of killers all over the world. He paid a deposit of 5 million to participate in the game, and found Xiaofu as a helper, just to know if the Tsukamoto Hospice Foundation had any doubts on his head; and he also had a fluke mentality and wanted to risk finding the real murderer Seraphim.
During this time, Xiaofu has found out that the police officer Chen Sir is the real Seraph. He ventilated with Chen Sir, and then led the crocodile guy into the Tsukamoto Building, wanting to end with Eiji.
Eiji had already been waiting there, and Xiaofu was inextricably beaten with an enemy.
Seraph fell from the sky at a critical moment and joined the battle group.
In the end, all of the Ying Er gang were killed by Xiao Fu and Seraph.
Xiaofu and Seraph Chen Sir finally divided the 100 million US dollars, because of this windfall, they both became rich. At the end of the
movie, Xiaofu inherited the nickname of Seraph Chen and decided to be a killer who walked the way for the sky. In the
movie, Gigi Leung plays the daughter of a crocodile guy, Kiki. When she first appeared on the stage, she had a boyfriend who had reached the stage of marriage and marriage, but later fell in love with Xiaofu. This imposing love scene is really a little bit ridiculous.
And Gigi Leung is very different from Jet Li from age to height. Pi Ge thinks that her participation in this movie is purely because of her reputation as the successor of the lady.
"King of Killers" finally received 10.3 million Hong Kong dollars in box office, ranking 21st in the total movie box office that year.
And then Jet Li went to Hollywood to participate in "Hot Cannon 4", although it was a work with a bad story, it received 16.43 million Hong Kong dollars and ranked 12th at the box office. It can be seen that the influence of Hollywood movies in Hong Kong has gradually surpassed the local the film.
According to the box office results in 1998, some people concluded that Hong Kong movies in this period had begun to decline.
Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: Blood and Heart
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-