Coolie Killer | |||||||||||||||
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Director: | Terry Tong | ||||||||||||||
Screenplay: | Eddie Fong Chun Tin-nam Chiu Kang-chien | ||||||||||||||
Producer: | Dennis Yu Jeffrey Lau | ||||||||||||||
Starring: | Charlie Chin Elliot Ngok Lisa Chiao Chiao Cecilia Yip | ||||||||||||||
Cinematography: | David Chung Brian Lai | ||||||||||||||
Editing: | David Wu | ||||||||||||||
Music: | Ivan Lai David Wu | ||||||||||||||
Studio: | Century Motion Picture & Distribution | ||||||||||||||
Runtime: | 91 minutes | ||||||||||||||
Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
Gross: | HK$5,532,180 |
Coolie Killer is a 1982 Hong Kong action film directed by Terry Tong and starring Charlie Chin, Elliot Ngok, Lisa Chiao Chiao and Cecilia Yip.
Ko Tat-fu (Charlie Chin), leader of a coolie killer group in Sai Ying Pun who specializes in assassinations in countries, is now the boss of a shipping company in Central, Hong Kong. However, one time, after an ambushed by a group of killers which left four of his underlings dead, he re-assumed his old profession. Ko believes the ambush was related to his refusal of a recent contract to kill someone in Hong Kong. He asks his lover, Hung-kam (Lisa Chiao Chiao) to investigate in to this, but she commits suicide. Ko is determined to battle for the truth. During a rainy night, when Ko takes out his foes, he ends his legendary and romantic life.
Kenneth Brorsson of So Good Reviews gave the film a positive review and writes "Great, more theme – and character based flicks would follow but Coolie Killer offers up a glimpse of why a story of nasty men fighting for own selfish revenge and not silly illusions of love is so pleasurable."[1]
The film grossed HK$5,532,180 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 3 June to 14 July 1982 in Hong Kong.