Friday, October 1, 2021

Yakuza Ladies Revisited - Shima Iwashita (1991) - Kai Tak Airport, Kowloon

Here's another film to add to the list of Japanese movies that feature Hong Kong, albeit briefly and probably (though it could have been shot for the film) using stock footage (similar to The Street Fighter and Sister Street Fighter). In the original film, Yakuza Ladies (that I haven't seen), a Yakuza boss's wife, Kanae (Shima Iwashita), runs the "Fujinami" gang whilst her husband is in prison. In this film, her husband has already died of a heartattack, allowing his brother to succeed him. But on a trip to Hong Kong to visit his daughter, the brother dies in suspicious circumstances and a succession battle breaks out between Kanae's son and son-in-law as well as a gang war between the clan and its main competitor. It's all very complicated but we do get a brief glimpse of Hong Kong in the small segment at the beginning of the film as the brother makes the trip.

The opening shot of the HK segment is this one of a China Airlines Cargo 747 landing at Kai Tak.
 

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