Shaw Brothers Festival Screening: Mercenaries From Hong Kong

USC School of Cinematic Arts and Celestial Pictures invite you to special screening.

Lo Li (Ti Lung), a medicine smuggler active in Thailand and Cambodia, returns to Hong Kong to kill playboy Tai Shao-wen (Ai Fei) to avenge his niece. While in hiding from Wen's angry godfather, underworld leader Shen Lao San, Lo is forcibly brought before a rich merchant's daughter Ho Ying (Yu An-an). She offers him protection and huge money to slip back into Cambodia to eliminate Thailand's No. 1 killer Nei Wen (Kao Fei) and retrieve a secret commercial tape from him, claiming that he killed her father for it.

Lo gathers four old mercenary colleagues Yuan Nan-sheng (Chen Hui-min), "Indian" (Wang Lung-wei), Lei Tai (Lo Lieh) and Brandts (Nat Chen Pai-chiang), along with a burglar Curry (Wang Yu), and they set themselves up in Ho Ying's Thai villa. There Lo rescues Ho Ying from the attentions of a brutal killer and becomes infatuated with her.

Once in Cambodia, the group kill several attacking guerillas before reaching Nei Wen's hideout, where, posing as medicine smugglers, they offer to sell their supplies to Nei Wen's sworn brother, guerilla leader Ying Tan (Kao Hsiung). They carry out a daring night raid and barely escape with Wen as hostage. Indian is killed trying to snatch a getaway truck, and the remaining five hand Nei Wen over to Ho Ying.

Only now do the friends discover that they have been tricked. In peril of their lives they return to Hong Kong and embark on a savage attempt to get even with their scheming employer.

Provided courtesy of Celestial Pictures. Not rated. Running time: 91 minutes. In Mandarin, with English subtitles.