Tiger on Beat

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Tiger on Beat
Directed by	Lau Kar-leung
Written by	Tsang Kwok Chi
Starring	Chow Yun-Fat Conan Lee Nina Li
Music by	Teddy Robin Kwan Theme Song by Maria Cordero
Distributed by	Cinema City Film Co. Ltd.
Release date(s)	1988
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Followed by	Tiger on the Beat 2
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Tiger on Beat (老虎出差; Lo foo chut gang), also known as Tiger on the Beat is a 1988 Hong Kong action-comedy film directed by Lau Kar-leung. It stars Chow Yun-Fat and Conan Lee as a buddy cop team who originally hate each other, but learn to overcome their differences in solving a case.

The film was followed by an unrelated sequel, Tiger on the Beat 2, starring Danny Lee with Conan Lee returning in a supporting role.

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Early in the film Shing Fui-On and Chow Yun-Fat's characters discuss that they both speak Hakka dialect and are from the same region. This is true in reality as well.
Shaw Brothers veteran Ti Lung appears as Triad dai lo (Cantonese: "big brother," equivalent to a higher ranking gang boss) Conan Lee fights to prove his worth as a police officer.
Kung Fu film megastar Gordon Liu stars as one of the film's villains.
As is obvious in certain segments of the film's final chainsaw battle, star Conan Lee and villain Gordon Liu at times use real, operating chainsaws.
Star Chow Yun Fat's character in the film, unlike his suave and stylish A Better Tomorrow character, is at once buffoonish, cowardly and clumsy. He has claimed this was intentional, as he found himself becoming quickly typecast following A Better Tomorrow's phenomenal success.
The film's director, Lau Kar Leung (aka Liu Chia Liang), has a martial arts training lineage which dates directly to legendary Chinese folk hero Wong Fei Hung, popularized in the successful Once Upon a Time in China film series, which starred Jet Li (for the most part). Lau is also a veteran of many Shaw Brothers kung fu films from the 1970s.
The UK release of this film was edited originally due to a scene where Chow Yun-Fat violently beats Nina Li Chi. This scene was restored without edits in the UK R2 Hong Kong Legends DVD release.