Dragons Forever
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Dragons Forever DVD cover
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| Traditional | 飛龍猛將 |
| Simplified | 飞龙猛将 |
| Mandarin | Fēi Lóng Měng Jiāng |
| Cantonese | Fei1 Lung4 Maang2 Zeong1 |
| Directed by |
Sammo Hung Corey Yuen |
| Produced by |
Raymond Chow Leonard Ho Barney Wu |
| Written by |
Gordon Chan Leung Yiu-ming Szeto Chuek-hon |
| Starring |
Jackie Chan Sammo Hung Yuen Biao Deannie Yip Pauline Yeung Yuen Wah Benny Urquidez James Tien |
| Music by |
James Wong Chin Yung Shing |
| Cinematography | Jimmy Leung Cheung Yiu-tso |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung Joseph Chiang |
| Distributed by |
Golden Harvest Fortune Star Paragon Films Ltd. Media Asia Group |
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Running time
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94 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
Dragons Forever (Chinese: 飛龍猛將) is a 1988 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film directed by Sammo Hung, who also co-stars in the film. The film stars Jackie Chan and Yuen Biao. The three actors, known colloquially as the Three Brothers, had attended the famous China Drama Academy together, and became members of the Seven Little Fortunes. This is the last film to date that all three have appeared in together. It was directed by Sammo Hung and another former member of the Seven Little Fortunes, Corey Yuen (aka Yuen Kwai). Yet another classmate, Yuen Wah, plays the film's main villain, while legendary kickboxer Benny Urquidez plays his right-hand man. Dragons Forever was filmed between September and November 1987.
A fishery is seeking court action against a local chemical factory for polluting the water. The mysterious chemical company hires lawyer Jackie Lung (Jackie Chan) to find information that will discredit the fishery. He employs his arms dealer friend, Wong (Sammo Hung) to woo the fishery owner, Miss Yip (Deannie Yip), to try to convince her to settle out of court. Lung also brings in crackpot inventor and professional criminal, Tung (Yuen Biao), to bug her apartment. Unfortunately, Wong and Tung are unaware of each other's roles and soon come into confrontation, whilst Lung tries to maintain the peace.
Wong falls for Miss Yip, whilst Lung woos her cousin, Miss Wen (Pauline Yeung), an environmental scientist who is going to testify on Miss Yip's behalf. The three men inadvertently discover that the chemical company is just a facade for a narcotics empire, ran by Hua Hsien-Wu (Yuen Wah). They soon come up against Hua's thugs, and ultimately infiltrate the factory for a showdown with Hua himself and his henchman - martial arts master (Benny Urquidez).
Two scenes with Timothy Tung Te-Biao (Yuen Biao) visiting a psychiatrist (played by Lucky Stars veteran, Stanley Fung) were cut from the domestic Hong Kong print, and the Japanese print of the film, but remain for the international version. These scenes appeared as extras on the Hong Kong Legends DVD of the film, entitled Couch Potato and Mr Kinetic. In the latter, the psychiatrist was in the process of being robbed. So that Tung would not realise a robbery was taking place, one of the robbers, posing as the psychiatrist, gave him advice over the intercom - to "kill the witnesses", which explains why Tung attacks Jackie Lung (Chan) and Ling (Pauline Yeung) in a later scene, wearing a mask and armed with a knife.
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