- Thirty years after he killed a business associate, the godfather of an underground casino empire is murdered. His daughter takes charge of the family's business and wants to revenge him. Others are bent on revenge against her.
- A girl and a boy are separated when children, after watching a gun fight between their fathers' gangs. Thirty years later, Sheila Cho leaves with her now much more rich owner of a large casino business in Hong Kong, who keeps doing dark businesses with the Japanese yakuza, and Dee Feng has become rich in the United States. Time and distance do not stop their reunion - with Feng intent on revenge.—Artemis-9
- 1960 A cargo ship approaches the coast of an island in Hong Kong. A little girl is one of the first to jump ashore, happy to meet with a little boy who is among the men who are waiting for the ship. The two get out of the way, and play with little shells - the boy trying to deceive the girl, but she wise enough not to be duped. The men are finishing to discharge a number of boxes to land, and Master Dee demands the payment from his associate, Mr. Cho. He surprises Dee by pulling a gun and shooting him point blank. Dee's wife shouts in anger against Master Cho, and is the next victim. The men in the boat, and Cho's companions, engage in a gunfight. The horrified girl grabs at her father's trousers, hiding behind him. The boy tries to approach his fallen father, but one of Dee's men grabs him, and takes him away in an off-board motor boat, escaping the bullets that Cho aims at them. Little Feng calls out for his father, and little Sheila calls out for Feng. Distance grows between them.
1990 Sheila has become an expert poker player, and sometimes she plays for big money. Ni Tor - the casino manager and card dealer - distributes cards to her and Mr. Sema, a tycoon. He pretends to have won. Sheila jumps on the table, and presses a pistol to the man's head. "Listen, if you really had four aces, I'd admit to losing. But if you want to break the rules of the game, I'll be harder than you." The man shivers in sweat, mumbling, "Miss Cho, I admit to losing, sorry."
Later, Master Cho is shot dead at his own casino, and the murderer escapes without being seen.
Chi-lo Konhon is in a sauna taking to an Associate. He wants news of his foster brother Sanlo, and his friend tells him that he is said to be in New York, and "he can't remember us" after so long. "He's not really a member of the Konhon family," Chi-lo says.
At Cho's funeral, a young woman is wearing red, and her father reprimands her. Uncle Han proposes that Sheila be the new leader of the Society, and all members respectfully agree. She accepts, and nominates him and his son Nie Tor, her substitutes in case she goes missing. Konhon's brother arrives late at the funeral ceremony, apologizing for the absence of Chi-lo, as he was gone to Japan in business.
At a billiards game, a young man approaches humbly Master Hsiong (burly guy in red) saying that "Master Chai sends me for you..." Hsiong is displeased, and shows it. The young man ends by attacking him, and recovering the money he owed his boss. Hsiong's friends menace the messenger. An undercover cop interrupts the scene, but a sales girl interrupts him - handing him some money and saying out loud, "Sir, you forgot the change of your toy pistol." The messenger and the cop are forced to run faster away, to prevent being beaten up by Hsiong and his friends.
Shui who acted as the fake cop to save his friend, is a waiter at Sheila's casino, and he is tired of telling his friend Chun to stop gaming, and working for such a dangerous person as Master Chai.
At the casino, Mr. Tang is playing poker, but he is drinking as much or more than he plays cards, so he is not doing well, but he keeps tipping Lily, the Bunny-dressed waitress.
At her office, Sheila is receiving the Yamaguchi leader, to discuss a contract about an international gambling ship. "Yamagamasi Gumi would pay 25 millions [HKD] for you, and your dad promised that it would be deducted from the future profit," the man says.
Meanwhile, at the gambling room, Shui's friend calls Lily, "Rabbit", and soon after, clumsy as always, he pours a drink on Tor's suit. Two bodyguards escort him to Nie Tor's office, and Chun takes a beating. Shui is looking for Chun, bypasses a bodyguard, and enters the manager's office, interrupting the beating. The manager tells Sui that he is dismissed from the job, and orders the two men away from the premises. As they go, Sheila sees them, and notices that Chun keeps claiming that he had been tricked at a card's game.
Sheila hires back Sui, and summons Tor to her office, and questions him about it. He denies it, but she doesn't seem fully convinced.
At the railway station, a young girl arrives from the Mainland, her clothing in sharp contrast with those of the other travelers. A robber takes a woman's purse, and the girl gives chase, leaving her travelling bag behind. After a fight on the railway's outdoors staircase, the girl prevails and hands the man to the cops. Then she goes for her luggage, but can't find it. She had just been robbed. She manages to find her way to Chun's house: she's his cousin, Joyce Huang, visiting Hong Kong for the first time.
Nie Tor accompanies the Japanese businessman around, and they settle for the guess to enjoy fishing at a nice place. Tor is beeped on his messenger, and excuses himself to go for a phone. As if on cue, a number of gunmen surrounding the pontoon open fire on the Japanese man and on Konhon's Brother, killing them.
Tor breaks the news to Sheila, who contains her fury at him, saying that it was their duty to ensure the guest's safety. Sheila calls Konhon to inform that his brother died, together with the Japanese businessman. He is so furious that he turns the phone off without speaking to her.
Joyce, the Mainlander, got a waitress job at the casino, not in a bunny uniform, but a smart black suit.
Uncle Chuan visits Sheila, pleading: "My daughter was kidnapped by the Luen Win Society... I lost six million dollars at their place." Sheila is in a rage, that he kept losing money in gambling, and refuses to help him. He grabs a knife from her desk, to commit suicide. She wrestles the knife from him, and promises to help.
Feng returns from the USA, and visits Sheila. He came to claim compensation for his father's killing by her father, thirty years ago. Since Sheila's father is already dead, he proposes her a game of cards to decide the matter: if he loses, she keeps the 30 million dollars he brought in cash in his handbag, and will not demand another sort of satisfaction, and if he wins, she will pass to him the ownership of the casino and linked businesses. Sheila accepts, noticing that Feng seems to be quite sure of his competence to win the poker game.
Sheila is going to her car, but Konhon's men kidnap her, and take her to Konhon's yacht. He accepts to meet her some time later.
Meanwhile, Chuan's daughter is about to be ravished by the gang who kidnapped her, when a commando attacks the place, and shoots the thugs. The commando acted on Sheila's orders, and Sheila hands the girl to Chuan, as she had promised.
Feng meets with his foster brother Konhon, and tells him: "You picked me from the sea, and raised me, it's too much already, and I'm not a member of the Konhon family. Yet, I'm someone in the US, I am no more the Sanlo of the past." He offers to help Chi-lo Konhon, but he refuses his help.
Sheila, Han and Tor meet Konhon on a bridge, somewhere where there is no traffic, or other witnesses except their bodyguards. "What will you do about Ta-lo's death," he asks. There's not much she can do, except fight a duel with him. They draw their pistols, and walk three paces apart... Only, Konhon cheats, and turns to shoot Sheila on her back. She reacts quickly, both shoot and miss, and a gunfire ensues between both parties. From a viewpoint, Feng watches the scene with binoculars, and sees Sheila shooting Chi-lo dead, and he looks impressed.
Konhon sends his people to harass Sheila's customer's at the casino, causing havoc and beating them up. Tor suggests to Sheila that they must act first, before Konhon goes further in this strategy to break up Sheila's business. There's an ambush at a car park, and both parties lose a number of men in yet a gunfight.
Next day at the casino, Feng is facing Sheila at the poker' table. Han introduces the game, and asks both players to take off all their jewelry, to make sure that there will be no cheating with the cards. They do, and surprisingly, Feng not only takes off his vest. but his shirt too, to make sure that he will not pick a card from his sleeve. Tor deals the cards with his usual swiftness and expertise, in front of all the members of the two "families".
The betting goes up from both players as they pick one card after the other. Then, Sheila has an ace straight flush, so she is sure to win. Feng smiles and shows his last card, an ace, thus completing his straight flush. Sheila is stunned for a minute, she can't show her cards, for that would mean there were five aces in the pack, and therefore, she - the casino's owner - was a cheater. She accepts defeat, and now knows that Tor is a traitor.
She summons Tor to her office - again. She exposes his treachery, and tells him that she doesn't kill him in attention to his father. Han enters the office, understands what's going on, and slaps his son, who runs away from the office.
Nie Tor goes straight to Feng's place, and tells him what happened. Feng asks who else knows what he has done, and Tor answers that only Sheila and his father know of the treachery. Feng tells him to arrange a meeting with his father, to talk things over. Son and father meet at the lonely bridge. The two men talk, Han is desperate, and decides to shoot his son. Feng shoots Han before he does. But one of the casino's employees had followed Han, and warns Sheila of the situation. Sheila arrives at the bridge with some of her men, and a new shoot-out between the gangs take place. Feng hand a gun to Tor, and says, "We can never work together with Sheila alive in this world - and you'll never be the new casino boss." Tor takes the gun and goes out trying to shoot Sheila. Sheila and Sui find themselves alone against a number of Fen's men, but by cunning and precision shots they manage to reach Sheila's car, and escape.
That evening, on her way home from the casino, Joyce is stalked by a man, but she beats him easily. It was not an attack, it was yet her clumsy cousin Chun. They walk home together, but soon bikers attack them. The bikers stalk and shoot at them, Joyce escapes, but Chun is wounded, first in an arm, then in a leg, and then executed in cold blood with more shots in the back and to the head.
Tor returns to the casino with Feng, who has convened a meeting of the Society to take the business in his hands.
At home, Shui wants to go out to take revenge on his friend's death, but Joyce and Sheila retain him.
Feng talks to the senior members of the Society stating that he is now the new president, what causes an easiness among the audience; then he says that with him there will be a 20% increase on their earnings, and several members immediately change their moods towards him. One of them, however, at Chan's side, stands up and objects to Feng's taking over in this manner. One of Feng's bodyguards shoots him dead point blank. No one else speaks.
"Ta-lo Konhon of the Yamagamai Gumi group, and your old Cho didn't get on good terms with me, so I killed them. What do you think about it? This is all I have to say. Let's adjourn the meeting, if there's nothing else to say."
Uncle Chan keeps as quite as the others, but goes to Joyce's place and tells Sheila of Feng's confession.
Feng visits a new casino under construction. Sheila appears suddenly, and confronts him with a gun. A gunfight starts between her and Feng's bodyguards, and then him too, as one man passes him a pistol. Sheila must retreat. Just in time, Joyce arrives with Shui, and provides her an escape in a wagon car.
Dee Feng is resting at his villa, and Tor suggests they have a drink together. Feng refuses, and his bodyguard points a gun at Tor's head. Feng explains that he doesn't like to have business associates. Tor pleads for his life, recalling that his help had been essential for him to get the casino from Sheila. Tor knocks the bodyguard aside and tries to run away, but two other bodyguards cut his path. A Japanese woman jumps from the floor above, taking him down with a double kick to the chest; the fight, but it's brief, and Tor dies, sent crashing two floors below, hitting his head on the rocks surrounding the villa. He tells her to change her dress before joining him to dinner.
In a speed boat, Sheila joins Chio-lo's yacht - for a meeting.
At the casino's basement, Feng seems worried, smoking a cigarette alone. The door is blown away by an explosion, and Sheila comes in, yielding a shotgun. He remarks that she has been punctual, but should not have been so violent. She wants to know if it was him who killed her father and Konhon. «If I did, you want revenge? Who'll help you?» He laughs out loud. Mr. Choi-lo steps up from behind Sheila, with four bodyguards. Feng is surprised, because he thought Chi-lo had died. He sees there is no escape, so he pulls a gun, but Sheila shoots him first. He falls dead. Chi-lo is suspicious, bends over the body, and rips off an elaborate face mask: the dead man was not Feng, but one of bodyguards.
Several of Feng's bodyguards get out of hiding places in the large room, forcing the outnumbered men of Chi-lo to surrender. The real Feng comes from the owner's room upstairs, and from the balcony he enjoys the scene of Sheila and Chi-lo's men being disarmed. His right arm is now the Japanese Karateka. He talks to them arrogantly, and Sheila says that may be they're underestimated Feng's capacities.
Shui makes a surprise appearance just behind Feng, and orders everybody to freeze, pointing a gun at Feng's head. He demands that everybody to put their guns down. Meanwhile, at the basement, Joyce is getting at the mains, and cuts off the electricity. In almost complete darkness, everybody attacks the nearest foe, and some men start shooting - the flames from the guns giving some light for the others to go by. Sheila beats a man and gets back her shotgun.
The Japanese woman and a couple of men go to the basement; the Japanese kills Shui with her najinata sword, and he dies in Joyce's arms.
The lights are restored, and suddenly Feng and Choi-lo find themselves at about 6 feet from each other; they fire at the same time, suffering light wounds only. Around them, their bodyguards start a heavy gunfight. Using her powerful weapon, Sheila downs several enemies. Feng ran upstairs to the office, and gets his new weapon, a machine-gun. He tries to get at Choi-lo, but misses him. Sheila and Feng engage in a furious gun fight, both full of rage, and ammunition.
In parallel, Joyce is engaging the Japanese in a fight, and Joyce soon manages to grab a decorative Chinese sword from the wall, to counter the thrusts of the Japanese najinata. Joyce prevails, and impales a sword through the Japanese belly, killing her. Upstairs, Joyce and Choi-lo join fire against Feng, who falls dead from the balcony on the large casino table below.
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