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''City Cops'' is a 1989 action film starring Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, Miu Kiu-wai, Shing Fui-on (of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame) and Kent Tong.
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''City Cops'' is a 1989 action film starring Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, Miu Kiu-wai, Shing Fui-on (of ''Film/TheKiller'' ''Film/TheKiller1989'' fame) and Kent Tong.
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* SaiGuy: A bit of a Cynthia Rothrock trademark, she DualWield sais when infiltrating Shikamuka's quarters, to great effect in taking down Yakuza mooks.
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* SaiGuy: A bit of a Cynthia Rothrock trademark, she DualWields sais when infiltrating Shikamuka's quarters, to great effect in taking down Yakuza mooks.
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* SaiGuy: A bit of a Cynthia Rothrock trademark, she DualWields DualWield sais when infiltrating Shikamuka's quarters, to great effect in taking down Yakuza mooks.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: [[https://moviesfilmsandflix.files.wordpress.com/2017/10/1989-miao_tan_shuang_long-790356686-large.jpg One of the film's VCD cover]] actually shows a screenshot of Michiko Nishiwaki from ''Film/GodOfGamblers''. It's misleading as hell, as Michiko at NO point in the movie disrobes herself or sport a hairstyle like depicted on the alternate cover.
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* TomboyishPonytail: Cindy in a few scenes.
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''City Cops'' is a 1989 action film starring Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, Miu Kiu-wai, Shing Fui-on (of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame) and Kent Tong.
Cynthia Rothrock plays Cindy, an FBI agent on assignment in Hong Kong, on the track of an escaped mafia leader. Reluctantly forced into an alliance with a pair of bumbling Hong Kong cops, Tai-kau and Shing, Cindy ends up stumbling into a conspiracy where the mafia is in league with a yakuza syndicate which has set up base in Hong Kong, leading to a final showdown where Cindy, Tai-kau and Shing takes on the combined forces of the yakuza and mafia.
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!! City Cops includes the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Protagonist Cindy, played by Cynthia Rothrock.
* BadassCrew: Cindy and her two allies, the Hong Kong police detectives Kent and Tai-kau, who leads a daring assault on the warehouse used by the Yakuza and mafia as hideout.
* BarBrawl: Cindy halfway through the first act gets to fight a group of bouncers when confronting a mob leader in a nightclub.
* DarkenedBuildingShootout: Cindy's ActionPrologue where she takes on a bunch of mafia goons in a dimly-lit apartment block.
* DesignatedGirlFight: The final battle in the warehouse inevitably culminates with Cindy, the protagonist and sole female member of the good guys, fighting Michiko, who leads the Yakuza, hand-to-hand.
* GorgeousGaijin: Most of the Hong Kong police officers, including Kent and Tai-kau, considers the Caucasian Cindy to be gorgeous and repeatedly tries flirting with her and finding a chance to hang out around her. She is NOT impressed.
* HumanShield: Cindy does this to more than one mook during shootouts. Of note being Shikamuka's bodyguard during the arrest scene, where Cindy uses him as a shield for an ill-timed katana swing.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted, Shikamuka get his hands on a katana and tries to rough up Cindy with it, but all he achieves includes accidentally hacking his bodyguard to death, getting its blade locked by Cindy's twin sais and getting his ass kicked while struggling to retrieve his weapon.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: The climax of the movie, which is Cindy, Tai-kau and Shing taking on a small legion of Yakuza and mafia to save Kent's sister abducted by Michiko's goons.
* SaiGuy: A bit of a Cynthia Rothrock trademark, she DualWields sais when infiltrating Shikamuka's quarters, to great effect in taking down Yakuza mooks.
* SinisterShades: The Mafia's goons wears shades in every scene they show up, including during daytime.
* TheToothHurts: Attempted by the Mafia during the opening scene, when they tries interrogating a captured police detective by lowering a drill into his mouth. Cindy's timely arrival by shooting the drill-holding Mafia henchman saves him from a world of pain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Yakuza leader Shikamuka, who dominates much of the film's first half, turns out to be a rather forgettable DiscOneFinalBoss; after Cindy infiltrates his headquarters and arrests him, he promptly dissappears from the picture (he didn't die onscreen, the movie just somehow forgot he even existed at that point) and is replaced by his subordinate Michiko.
* {{Yakuza}}: They're the secondary villains of the picture, showing up halfway through the second act. There's the supervisor Shikamuka (who dissappears for some reason after his arrest) and the real BigBad, the yakuza queen Michiko.
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''City Cops'' is a 1989 action film starring Creator/CynthiaRothrock, Creator/MichikoNishiwaki, Miu Kiu-wai, Shing Fui-on (of ''Film/TheKiller'' fame) and Kent Tong.
Cynthia Rothrock plays Cindy, an FBI agent on assignment in Hong Kong, on the track of an escaped mafia leader. Reluctantly forced into an alliance with a pair of bumbling Hong Kong cops, Tai-kau and Shing, Cindy ends up stumbling into a conspiracy where the mafia is in league with a yakuza syndicate which has set up base in Hong Kong, leading to a final showdown where Cindy, Tai-kau and Shing takes on the combined forces of the yakuza and mafia.
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!! City Cops includes the following tropes:
* ActionGirl: Protagonist Cindy, played by Cynthia Rothrock.
* BadassCrew: Cindy and her two allies, the Hong Kong police detectives Kent and Tai-kau, who leads a daring assault on the warehouse used by the Yakuza and mafia as hideout.
* BarBrawl: Cindy halfway through the first act gets to fight a group of bouncers when confronting a mob leader in a nightclub.
* DarkenedBuildingShootout: Cindy's ActionPrologue where she takes on a bunch of mafia goons in a dimly-lit apartment block.
* DesignatedGirlFight: The final battle in the warehouse inevitably culminates with Cindy, the protagonist and sole female member of the good guys, fighting Michiko, who leads the Yakuza, hand-to-hand.
* GorgeousGaijin: Most of the Hong Kong police officers, including Kent and Tai-kau, considers the Caucasian Cindy to be gorgeous and repeatedly tries flirting with her and finding a chance to hang out around her. She is NOT impressed.
* HumanShield: Cindy does this to more than one mook during shootouts. Of note being Shikamuka's bodyguard during the arrest scene, where Cindy uses him as a shield for an ill-timed katana swing.
* KatanasAreJustBetter: Averted, Shikamuka get his hands on a katana and tries to rough up Cindy with it, but all he achieves includes accidentally hacking his bodyguard to death, getting its blade locked by Cindy's twin sais and getting his ass kicked while struggling to retrieve his weapon.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: The climax of the movie, which is Cindy, Tai-kau and Shing taking on a small legion of Yakuza and mafia to save Kent's sister abducted by Michiko's goons.
* SaiGuy: A bit of a Cynthia Rothrock trademark, she DualWields sais when infiltrating Shikamuka's quarters, to great effect in taking down Yakuza mooks.
* SinisterShades: The Mafia's goons wears shades in every scene they show up, including during daytime.
* TheToothHurts: Attempted by the Mafia during the opening scene, when they tries interrogating a captured police detective by lowering a drill into his mouth. Cindy's timely arrival by shooting the drill-holding Mafia henchman saves him from a world of pain.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Yakuza leader Shikamuka, who dominates much of the film's first half, turns out to be a rather forgettable DiscOneFinalBoss; after Cindy infiltrates his headquarters and arrests him, he promptly dissappears from the picture (he didn't die onscreen, the movie just somehow forgot he even existed at that point) and is replaced by his subordinate Michiko.
* {{Yakuza}}: They're the secondary villains of the picture, showing up halfway through the second act. There's the supervisor Shikamuka (who dissappears for some reason after his arrest) and the real BigBad, the yakuza queen Michiko.
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