

The Illegal Immigrant
1985-05-03 · 98 min · ★ 6.2
The lead, arrested and processed after a police raid on a Canal St. clothing workshop. He has no status in HK, where he'd swam, or the US, where he arrived as a stowaway, to avoid metal detectors which would pick up the bullets still in his body.
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- Directors
- Mabel Cheung Yuen-ting
- Production companies
- Shaw Brothers
- Countries
- Hong Kong
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- Released
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Wu Fu-ShengCindy Li
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