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Charles dierkop, who played a different character in this segment, was cast as royster in the later police story episodepilot and the police woman series. Featuring some of the most dangerous stunts ever performed on camera, police story and police story 2 are a dazzling blend of gritty action cop drama and impeccably choreographed martialarts sequences that revitalized the hong kong action genre and established jackie chan as a. In the first part, we are introduced to policeman chan ka kui jackie chan and his unorthodox ways of catching criminals. The survivors guilt is bad enough, but as a medal winner he finds the. It is a standalone story with jackie chan playing detective zhong wen, a mainland chinese police officer, as opposed to hong kong police officer kevin chan kakui, his character in the first four films. Released around the world as police story 20, police story.
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