Wild Search
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| Wild Search | |
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| Directed by | Ringo Lam |
| Written by | Nam Yin |
| Produced by | Ringo Lam |
| Starring | Chow Yun-fat Cherie Chung Roy Cheung Tommy Wong Elaine Jin Paul Chun Ku Feng |
| Cinematography | Andrew Lau |
| Edited by | Chow Tung-lei |
| Music by | Lowell Lo |
Production companies | Born Top Productions Golden Princess Film Production |
| Distributed by | Silver Medal Presentations |
Release date |
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Running time | 98 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$15,944,333 |
Wild Search (伴我闖天涯) is a 1989 Hong Kong action drama film[1] directed and produced by Ringo Lam. The film stars Chow Yun-fat, Cherie Chung and Chan Cheuk-yan. Chow plays Lau Chung-pong, a city policeman who becomes emotionally involved with a mainland Chinese immigrant (Chung) and her niece (Cheuk-yan) inside a New Territories village following the death of the immigrant's sister at the hands of a Vietnam-based gunrunning gang.[2] The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 3 June 1989. It was nominated at the 26th Golden Horse Awards for Best Feature Film, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress.[3]
Cast and roles
[edit]- Chow Yun-fat as Lau Chung-pong/'Mew-Mew'
- Cherie Chung as Cher
- Roy Cheung as Bullet
- Paul Chun as Mr. Hung
- Chan Cheuk-yan as Ka-ka
- Ku Feng as Lee
- Tommy Wong as Nam
- Lau Kong as Leong
- Frankie Ng as Cheong
- Elaine Jin as Elaine Lee
- Wan Yeung-ming as Cop
References
[edit]- ↑ Richard James Havis (17 March 2024). "Johnnie To's judo film with Aaron Kwok and Louis Koo, Throw Down, Chow Yun-fat playing against type in Wild Search: 3 neglected Hong Kong action movies". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ Havlin, Jamie (17 July 2021). "Ringo Lam's Wild Search (1989)". Louder Than War. Retrieved 31 July 2025.
- ↑ "台北金馬影展 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival". www.goldenhorse.org.tw (in Chinese (Taiwan)). Retrieved 18 September 2025.
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