Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

Original title: Di yi lei xing wei xian

1980
1h 35m

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Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (1980)

Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four cri... Read allThree lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.Three lazybones friends manufacture a firebomb and place it in a cinema. Pearl, a sadistic young girl, has observed the scene, follows the bombers and starts to manipulate them. The four criminals plan more and more daring acts.

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7.3/10

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Trivia
According to actor Pierre Tremblay, Nigel Falgate, who played the lead gun runner Nigel, was not a professional actor, but an off-duty Hong Kong police officer who appeared in the film 'without official permission'. This is why his face is obscured throughout the film.

Alternate versions
Tsui Hark's original version was banned by Hong Kong censors. Several subplots had to be removed (in the original, the three teenagers plant self-built bombs in public places for the fun of it) and scenes were re-shot. The DVD-release by HK Video in France includes both the original and the modified version.

Connections
Referenced in Dead Easy (1982)

Soundtracks
Alba Dei Morti Viventi
(uncredited)
Performed by Goblin
Taken from their "Zombi - Dawn of the Dead" soundtrack

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9/10

Dangerous spiral

I love the heroine of this movie. She, a beautiful teen-age sister of a cop, is in fact a fiery, sadistic psychopath who dominates hapless (and spineless) threesome of students and forces them to participate in her reckless criminal scheme.

Even though the heroine is totally amoral, and sadistic etc., we can't but root for her because she is fearless and puts up a lone fight against..., against everything. She is motivated by dark and formless anger, and she controls (or tries to control) three students through fear and greed. This relationship between the girl and the threesome is the most interesting aspect of the film.

Their dangerous game leads to the involvement with organized crime (the triad?) and to the dire conclusion. The last twenty or so minutes of the film is truly gruesome.

The other characters in film are pretty two-dimensional --- the villains are mere killing machines, and the cop, the brother of the heroine, is also rather stereotypical loner cop. But the dangerous and out-of-control spiral of the four main characters is riveting to watch.