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Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind

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1980 · 100 min Crime Thriller Action
7.1 / 10 · TMDB

A city's most wanted criminal spent his life hiding in plain sight. A bored teenager discovered his secret and decided to play a game. What begins as a reckless dare spirals into a vortex of blackmail, violence, and explosive chaos. Tsui Hark's seminal 1980 crime thriller is a raw, kinetic portrait of urban alienation and youthful nihilism. This brutal drama dissects a society on the brink, where the most dangerous type of peril isn't a bomb, but the emptiness in the human heart.

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Original Title 第一類型危險
Year 1980
Country Hong Kong
Genre Crime, Thriller, Action
Director Tsui Hark
Runtime 100 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.1/10 (43 votes)

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Tsui Hark crafts a raw, quasi-documentary snapshot of Hong Kong youth on the edge. His camera observes without judgment, letting grimy streets, vacant stares, and absurd violence speak a language of nihilism.

This is for viewers prepared for a harsh, almost tactile descent into anarchy. It offers no solutions, only the sensation of a fuse burning within a city's soul. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Tsui Hark

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Late at night in a sparse room, with a sense of unease.

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