Exuberant, visually dense adaptation from the popular similarly named Japanese anime. The film is set in a world where shape-shifting alien creatures known as Raptors have infiltrated human society. To deal with this problem, Hong Kong has fashioned a secret government task force aptly known as the Anti-Raptor Bureau, recruiting young talent with telekinetic abilities such as Taki and Ken. The bureau's current interest is in Japanese billionaire Daishu (played by Japanese screen legend Tatsuya Nakadai) who they figure is well over 150 years old and a likely Raptor. For his part, Daishu preaches peaceful co-habitation with humans. His deranged son, Shudo, on the other hand, espouses the wholesale destruction of the human race. Of course, the presence of a mysterious drug called Happiness, which gives Raptors fantastic strength and a hair-trigger temper, is not helping the cause of the peacemakers.
Release Date: 1992
Run Time: 88 minutes
Rating: Unrated
Starring: Jacky Cheung, Leon Lai, Michelle Li, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuen Woo Ping, Roy Cheung
Director: Peter Mak
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