Movie: Burning Ambition

Top 10 Billed Cast

Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
陳勳奇

Chi-Shau

Simon Yam
任達華

Tat-Hwa

Ko Chun-Hsiung
Ko Chun-Hsiung

Yukari Ôshima
Yukari Ôshima

Chau Siao-Tao

Kara Wai Ying-Hung
惠英紅

Chau Siu-Hong

Michael Miu Kiu-Wai
苗僑偉

Eddy Ko Hung
高雄

Roy Chiao
Roy Chiao

Hwa's Father

Austin Wai Tin-Chi
惠天賜

Lau Siu-Ming
劉兆銘

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    This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.

  • Release Date

    1989-04-13

  • Average

    6.7

  • Rating:

    3.4 starts
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  • Languages:

    广州话 / 廣州話
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