Zodiac Killers

Jul 20, 1991

1h 37m

★ 4.2

Overview

Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.

Genres

Crime

Drama

Romance

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Cast

Ben Li

Andy Lau

Meng Tieh-Lan

Cherie Chung Cho-Hung

Hideyuki Asano

Junichi Ishida

Old geisha Miyako (cameo)

Kyôko Kishida

Yuriko

Junko Takazawa

Ishikawa (cameo)

Yasuaki Kurata

Chang Chih

Tou Tsung-hua

Ming

Sun Peng

Harada

Law Fei-Yu

Mei Mei

Tsang Wai-Fai

San Akiyama

Hiroichi Chiba

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