Burning Ambition (1989)
Genre : Action, Crime, Drama
Runtime : 1H 44M
Director : Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
Writer : Frankie Chan Fan-Kei
Synopsis
This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.
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