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The Heroic Trio
The Heroic Trio film poster
Directed byJohnny To
Written bySusanne Chan
Produced byChing Siu-tung
Johnny To
Yeung Kwok-fai
StarringMichelle Yeoh
Anita Mui
Jamie Donnelly
Damian Lau
CinematographyTom Lau
Poon Hang-Sang
Edited byNg Kam Wah
Music byWilliam Wu
Release date
1992
Running time
88 minutes
CountryTemplate:FilmHong Kong
LanguageCantonese

The Heroic Trio (Dung fong saam hap, TC: 東方三俠, pinyin: dōng fāng sān xiá) is a 1993 Hong Kong action film directed by Johnny To, starring Michelle Yeoh, Maggie Cheung, and the late Anita Mui as the titular trio. Other cast include Damian Lau, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Paul Chun, James Pak and Yan Yee Kwan.

Cast and roles

Plot Summary

An invisible woman is kidnapping newborn babies who are destined to be emperors and delivering them to the mysterious subterranean supernatural Evil Master. The police are powerless, and the city must be saved by three very different women who share a terrible past. Anita Mui plays a mild mannered housewife of a police inspector who's also the mask wearing, sword slinging and knife throwing crime fighter, Wonder Woman; Maggie Cheung plays the shotgun-toting, hard-boiled bounty hunter, Thief Catcher, while Michelle Yeoh is the troubled but determined strong right arm of the Evil Master, Invisible Girl.

The main characters of the film are reunited in a sequel, another 1993 film, Executioners.

Characters

Female Heroes

Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is intelligent and helpful. Her true identity is Tung and she is played by Anita Mui, in the film. Wonder Woman dreams that Ching has gone mountain climbing; she lets go of the handle at the mountain and it is unclear whether she has survived or not. This worries Tung and she feels that she must find her; at the same time she hears that the babies have been kidnapped and that one baby has been taken by the Thief Catcher. Tung's long time husband is Inspector Lau.

Ching

Ching is the sister of Tung. In the film, she tells Tung that she is leaving home and not coming back. It is also seen that she has been in contact with a villain named the Evil Master. Though the Thief Catcher is her childhood friend, the two are only reunited as adults. Ching is responsible for the kidnapping of the babies. She uses an invisible robe which is given to her by the Evil Master, to carry out the kidnappings. Ching is known to the Evil Master as "San". She was portrayed by actress, Michelle Yeoh, in the film.

Thief Catcher

Thief Catcher is an irresponsible detective who is attracted to the Chief of Police. She takes one of the babies and heads for a large cottage. However, the baby is killed. After, she meets with Ching and asks why the Evil Master wants the babies. She later tries to rescue the Chief Of Police's baby as her job, but in doing so, she almost gets caught. She teams up with Wonder Woman to rescue the babies and to stop the Evil Master's men attacking the hostages at the Train station. She is played by Maggie Cheung.

Villains

The Evil Master

He is the main villain of the film and hires Ching to steal newborn babies as her job. Ching has worked for him for many years. The Thief Catcher likes to call him as "Damned Old Monster!" as she strongly dislikes him.

Ratings

As of November 25th, 2009, The Heroic Trio has gained an 89% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

See also

External links

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