
Dragon Tiger Gate(2006)
Three young martial arts masters emerge from the back streets of Hong Kong to help the powerless fight injustice.


A young woman named Yin dreams of leaving her modest village life for a chance to try to make it big as a martial arts movie star. Leaving for the big city with her boyfriend, life takes a turn for poor Yin when she soon finds herself addicted to drugs and being pimped out by her boyfriend. After a violent altercation forces Yin to flee to Hong Kong, it's not long before she ends up on the radar of the police. Without any other options, Yin makes a deal with the police to go undercover with one of their straight-laced female detectives, Hung, in order to try and bring down a notorious drug dealer nicknamed "King Kong." Victimized by the men in their lives, the two unlikely friends must team up to protect each other from the criminals out to get them and work together to get revenge on those who have betrayed them.
Farini Cheung Yui-Ling
Hung

Tamara Guo
Li Siu-Yin

Won Jin
King Kong

Corey Yuen
Officer Pun

David Lai Tai-Wai
David Cheung

Wong Wai-Tak
Brother Chiu

Chan Sek
King Kong's Right Hand Man
Johnny Cheung Wa
King Kong's Thug

Benny Lai Keung-Kuen
King Kong's Thug
Adam Chan Chung-Tai
King Kong's Thug
Women on the Run is a action, thriller film released in 1993 exploring themes of martial arts. Directed by David Lai Tai-Wai, it stars Farini Cheung Yui-Ling, Tamara Guo, Won Jin. A young woman named Yin dreams of leaving her modest village life for a chance to try to make it big as a martial arts movie star. Leaving for the big city with her boyfriend, life takes a turn for poor Yin when she soon finds herself addicted to drugs and being pimped out by her boyfriend. After a violent altercation forces Yin to flee to Hong Kong, it's not long before she ends up on the radar of the police. Without any other options, Yin makes a deal with the police to go undercover with one of their straight-laced female detectives, Hung, in order to try and bring down a notorious drug dealer nicknamed "King Kong." Victimized by the men in their lives, the two unlikely friends must team up to protect each other from the criminals out to get them and work together to get revenge on those who have betrayed them.
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