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The Illegal Immigrant

6.219851h 38mMovieDrama

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.

DirectorMabel Cheung Yuen-Ting
WriterAlex Law Kai-Yui
ProducerMona Fong Yat-Wah

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Cast · Directed by Mabel Cheung Yuen-Ting

CY
Ching Yong-Cho
Cheung Kwan Chow
WFWu Fu-Sheng
Wu Fu-Sheng
Cindy Li
LC
Liao Chong-Yu
PG
Peter Lee Gui-Yuen
SC
Sam Piu Choi
LK
Lau Kin-Ling
NP
Ng Pik-Kei
LK
Lee Kau-Yan
RPRuben Pla
Ruben Pla
Convict
LL
Laurie Lynd
YW
Yeung Wa

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