The Man from Hong Kong
The Man from Hong Kong is a 1975 film from Australia and Hong Kong, directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, running 106 minutes. reelscum files it under Ozploitation and martial arts.
- Year
- 1975 · 1970s films
- Runtime
- 106 min
- Director
- Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Updated
- 29 Oct 2026
- Obscurity
- cult (37/100)
- Also known as
- Dragon Flies · Yellow Peril · Man from Hong Kong
Defined in the glossary: Ozploitation, Martial arts
Jimmy Wang Yu wrecks Sydney, with hang-gliding and a man actually on fire. Peak crossover.
Brian Trenchard-Smith's Australia-Hong Kong smash-up, and the crossover everyone else has been failing to match ever since. Jimmy Wang Yu, the one-armed swordsman himself, plays a Hong Kong supercop who flies to Sydney to collect a prisoner and levels most of the city instead. The stunts are real and reckless: a hang-glider over Sydney Harbour, a fight that opens at Uluru, and George Lazenby set alight for a full-body burn that reportedly got away from everyone on the day. Trenchard-Smith does his own stunt work and gets hurt for it. Jimmy Wang Yu could not drive, which lends the car scenes a certain authenticity. Wall to wall, gleeful and brutal, with Jigsaw's Sky High blaring over the wreckage.
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