The Wicked City (1992 film)
The Wicked City Chinese Cantonese Yale Yu sau du sh is a 1992 science fiction film directed by Peter Mak and produced by Tsui Hark. It is a liveaction film adaptation of the Japanese anime of the same name, which in turn is based on the novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. The film stars Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Yuen Wooping, Roy Cheung, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michelle Reis, and Carman Lee. It tells fictional story of conflicts and relationship between demonlike creatures and humans in 1990s Hong Kong.
The film begins with the sun setting in Tokyo. Unknown to most people, there is the demonic Rapter World in conflict with human world. Rapters shift their shapes and infiltrate human world. Taki or Leung, played by Leon Lai is a sales of a Hong Kong importexport company, but that is only his cover. He reveals his real occupation when he hunts down a seductive spiderlike rapter in Tokyo. Ken saved his life when Taki ran out of bullets. Taki belongs to the AntiRapter Special Police. One day he is transferred back to Hong Kong. The 1997 transfer of Hong Kong is near, AntiRapter Special Police Headquarter transferred many agents from Hong Kong to the United Kingdom. This is a chaotic period when Hong Kong is most vulnerable to rapters. Thats why Taki is sent to Hong Kong to help.Also in the unit is Takis buddy Ken Kai or Ying, Jacky Cheung. Kens father fall in love with a rapter, thus in the veins of Ken flows the black blood of rapter, which caused distrust on him every time. But he always hopes to prove his humanity. Besides Taki, Orchid Loh, by Carman Lee is the only one in the unit on his side. When Ken felt Taki did not trust him well enough, Taki tells him about his past relationship with a rapter, Windy Gaye, Michelle Reis. Taki is ordered to arrest Windy and is critically injured by the other rapters who are hunting down Windy. Windy heals him out of goodwill, as she escapes to the human world in hope for peace, and the two becomes romantically bound. However Taki is afraid he will step into Kens fathers shoes, and he eventually ran away from Windy. ........
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