Trivia / Fatal Termination

• Star-Making Role: This film ended up helping boost Robin Shou's career in later films. An exerpt from him explains what happened:
  After doing a chain of small parts, this was a pivotal film in my career. I played a corrupt custom officer. It was a main stream Hong Kong production where I got to play opposite Simon Yam. This time I played his antagonist instead of his body guard. I worked with Paul Wong and Ridley again. There was a lot of lines in the film. I actually got to act. I remember calling my friend Eric Chen to send me books in acting. I really wanted to do well, but I didn’t know how. So I read and read. Watched a lot of movies. Mostly American films. Tried to pick up as much techniques as I could from them.

  It was so much fun and hard work at the same time. My career depended on it. I didn’t want to go back to L.A. so the stakes were high. At the end, the film did really, really well and I got great reviews. One of the review even said I “had the quality to be a star.” I was on cloud nine. I would’ve gone to cloud ten if they had one. This film propelled me to “Tiger Cage 2.” A Yeun Woo Ping film.

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