The Fighting Dragon - Yasuaki Kurata (1975) - Kai Tak Airport

This film is another of those pastiches consisting of episodes of a show edited together to try and make a movie length feature. In this case the show was called Fight! Dragon apparently shown in Japan despite it being (according to HKMDB credits) largely a HK production. It was also release under the title Challenge Me Dragon. The plot revolves around a kung fu student, Lung Yen-fei (Kurata), who arrrives in Hong Kong to investigate the murder of his master who was otherwise healthy. He soon finds out a bunch of gangsters are after him and gets help from an Interpol agent along the way in the guise of Bruce Leung Siu-lung.

The film kicks off (always literally with these types of movies) at Kai Tak airport as Lung arrives by plane and is immediately beset by people wanting to kill him. A woman surreptitiously leaves him a note asking for help and he later goes to prevent her from being kidnapped at the front entrance. Some mistaken identity ensues as he confuses the Interpol agent tasked with protecting her as one of the bad guys.

Yeung Sze (aka Bolo) walks around this first part of this film with an unlit cigarette perpetually hanging from his mouth. I'm not sure if he is just trying to give up smoking or has lost his lighter somewhere.

Does anyone remember Kai Tak's old clock?

Later in the film the action switches to Japan for a brief period (and then the Philippines, I think) so we also get a brief look at the airport then as well.