Police Woman (film)

Police Woman (Chinese: 女警察), released in the United States as Rumble in Hong Kong, is a 1973 Hong Kong action crime film written, produced and directed by Hdeng Tsu, who also co-stars in the film. The film stars Lin Chiu, Charlie Chin and Jackie Chan. The film is also known as Young Tiger.

Police Woman
DVD cover
Traditional女警察
Simplified女警察
MandarinNu jing cha
CantoneseNui ging chaat
Directed byHdeng Tsu
Produced byHdeng Tsu
Wei Hai-feng
Written byHdeng Tsu
StarringLin Chiu
Charlie Chin
Jackie Chan
Music byChou Fu-liang
Edited byVincent Leung
Distributed byGreat Earth Film Company
Release date
  • 26 April 1973 (1973-04-26)
Running time
72 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageMandarin
Box officeHK$287,494[1]

The film was released in Hong Kong on 26 April 1973.

Plot

Chien Chen, a Hong Kong taxi driver, picks up Ho Mei Fong, a woman on the run from a gang of criminals. She dies suddenly and mysteriously in his back seat, but not before hiding her purse in the taxi. Now, the gang members begin to torment Chen, hoping he will hand over the purse, despite Chen being completely unaware of it.

Chen is visited by a woman claiming to Ho Mei Fong's sister and looking for the purse. Days later, the dead woman's real sister, Police Inspector Ho Wai Ma, visits Chen and reveals that she had not spoken to her sister in years as she had become involved in the criminal underworld. The pair decide to team up to find Ho Mei's killers and bring them to justice.

The impostor turns out to be Sao Mei, who also works for the gang's evil boss. Chen witnesses her being kidnapped by the thugs and follows them to their hideout, joined by Ho Wai Ma. However both heroes are captured by the villains. Locked in a room together, Sao Mei reveals the truth to Ho Wai. The boss recruits attractive young women, such as Sao Mei and Ho Mei Fong, to become drug smugglers for him. However Ho Mei became desperate to escape and took photos of the mole faced gang leader planting a car bomb which subsequently killed a man. The gangsters become aware of this and force her to drink poison. Secretly assisted by Sao Mei, Ho Mei escapes the hideout with the incriminating evidence hidden in her purse. Tragically she did not make it to the hospital in time, and died in Chen's taxi.

Chen, Ho Wai and Sao Mei manage to escape from their holdings and fight off their captors, then summon both the police and Chen's fellow taxi drivers to their location. The criminals try to escape, but in a final brawl Chen defeats the gang leader and retrieves Ho Mei's purse from his taxi. The evidence and the villains are then handed over to the police.

Cast

Production

It is set and filmed in Hong Kong in 35 days on 8 June – 13 July 1972.

Home Media

American Home video companies like Xenon Entertainment Group and Madacy Entertainment released the film on video in the early 2000s as Rumble In Hong Kong. Clearly this was an attempt to capitalize on Jackie Chan's recent popularity in the west thanks to the release of Rumble in the Bronx and other films.

On 17 September 2001, DVD was released by Prism Leisure Corporation at the United Kingdom in Region 2.

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See also

References
  1. 【ジャッキーチェン興行成績】 第8回：香港での興行収入. KungFu Tube (in Japanese). 2010. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
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