Dragons Forever

Feb 11, 1988

1h 33m

★ 7.3

Spectacular action all the way as Jackie Chan busts a high-tech drug ring.

Overview

A hot-shot lawyer is hired by a Hong Kong chemical plant to dispose of opposition to their polluting ways. But when he falls for a beautiful woman out to stop the plant, he is torn in a conflict of interest and asks his trusty friends Samo and Biao to help out at least until they discover the true purpose of the plant.

Genres

Action

Comedy

Romance

Production Companies

Paragon Films

Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Dragons Forever Trailers

Cast

Jackie Lung

Jackie Chan

Wong Fei-Hung

Sammo Hung Kam-Bo

Tung Tak-Biao

Yuen Biao

Miss Yip

Deanie Yip Tak-Han

Wen Mei-Ling

Pauline Yeung Bo-Ling

Hua Hsien-Wu

Yuen Wah

Hua's Bodyguard

Billy Chow Bei-Lei

Hua's Bodyguard

Steve Lee Ka-Ting

Hua's Bodyguard

Phillip Ko Fai

Jackie's Assistant

Crystal Kwok

Jackie's Boss

Shum Wai

Lawyer Wen

Woo Fung

Lau Leung-wah plays the titled character, a Chinese Robin Hood who robs the rich to help the poor. She is an early Republican Era Mulan, who switches effortlessly between charming gentility and agile ferocity, and Lau personifies her character's duality with a balance of grace and vigour. Chang Cheh, on the verge of fostering seismic changes in cinema with his martial-arts machismo, pens a script that captures the spirit of changing Chinese womanhood, underscored by a conflict between Black Butterfly and her father, a veteran detective.

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