TRAILER: Raid On The Lethal Zone (China, 2023)
Herman Yau has a busy 2023 coming up with the release of this straight-to-web thriller coming in June! Check out the new subtitled trailer.
A web-movie with the famous Hong Kong director Herman Yau at the helm, this movie is set towards the end of last century, in the late 1990s, on China’s south west border.
Based on a real story, we follow a special combat team called “8077” who must fight through floods and the dangers of nature as they take on a violent gang of drug traffickers
Hong Kong movie fans should know Herman quite well, a 25 year movie directing veteran responsible for gory Cat 3 movies like Ebola Syndrome (1996) and The Untold Story (1993), the first 6 movies in the Troublesome Night (1997+) horror series, as well as more recent hits such as Shockwave 1 and 2 (2017 – 2020) and the recently released Death Notice (2022)
The cast, however, is very B-grade with no familiar faces here
Hao (Oho) Ou leads the way, seen previously in The Eight Hundred (2020), The Captain (2019) and Chinese Doctors (2021)
Jason Gu stars alongside him, from the 2022 action movie Formed Police Unit, and 2019 disaster film The Bravest
With Yao Huang as the female lead, seen recently as the lead in the romantic film The Italian Recipe (2022) and Jackson Yee’s Nice View (2022), as well as acclaimed movie The Crossing (2018)
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