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The Avenging Quartet is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama released in USA on 1 january 1992 with Cynthia Khan
The Avenging Quartet (1993)
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Add to a movie listThe Avenging Quartet (霸海紅英) is a 1993 Hong Kong martial arts action crime film directed by Stanley Siu Wing, starring Cynthia Khan and Moon Lee.
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A man flees China with a painting that contains a list of Japanese officials from WWII. His girlfriend (Cynthia Khan) follows him. The Japanese send a woman (Yukari Oshima) to Hong King to retrieve the painting, where she is joined by a friend (Michiko Nishiwaki) and they both team up to find him.Actors
Cynthia Khan
(Chin)
Moon Lee
(Feng (as Lee Choi Fung))
Carlo Chin
(Paul (as Chin Ka Lok))
Yukari Oshima
(Oshima)
Lee Siu-kei
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