Post-Apocalyptic World

Post-Apocalyptic World (Cantonese: 後世界末日 Jyutping: hau6 sai3 gaai3 mut6 jat6) is a 1985 Hong Kong dystopian action science fiction film written and directed by Charles Cheung. The film stars, , , , and. The film is dedicated to Hideyuki Seki, who died during the production of the film in 1984.

The film premiered in Manhattan on May 20, 1985 and was released in Hong Kong on May 25, 1985, to positive reviews.

Plot
In the year 2028, after semi-retired professional hitman Yeung Chong-Ho loses his wife Wing-Sze to a terminal illness, he receives a beagle puppy named Fung Ming from her to help him cope with his grief. Despite Yeung's stoic demeanor, he bonds with the puppy and they spend their day driving around in his vintage 1969 Ford Mustang Mach 1. At a gas station, he encounters a trio of triad whose leader Hung Hiu-Wai, founder of the Combine Corporation, insists on buying his car, which John refuses to sell. That evening, Hung sends a team of hitmen to Yeung's house, but Yeung kills all of them and enlists an underworld cleaning service to dispose of the bodies and evidence.

Two days later, Yeung makes his way through Kowloon before he is labeled "excommunicado" for the unauthorized killing of Chinese crime lord Zhang Zhongyuan on the grounds of the Kowloon Continental Hotel. At the Kowloon Public Library, he retrieves a marker medallion and a crucifix. He is injured in a fight with a hitman named Michael Liu and seeks medical treatment from an underworld doctor, but his HK$14 million bounty activates before the doctor can finish. Yeung finishes suturing himself and shoots the doctor in the stomach and shoulder to protect him from repercussions. He is quickly pursued by various gangs of assassins, whom he kills in an antiques store, in a stable, and in a chase while on horseback.

While on horseback, Yeung experiences disturbing visions and flees into the woods, confused and terrified. He encounters the mysterious HK-Man. The events that occurred at Kowloon attracted the attention of the Combine, a multidimensional empire which conquered Earth in seven hours. The Combine have implemented a brutal police state by biologically assimilating humans and other species. The HK-Man inserts Yeung into a train arriving at City 13, the site of the Combine Corporation headquarters, where Hung governs as the Combine's puppet ruler.

After eluding the Combine forces, Yeung joins resistance members including Wong Hing-Fung, a former Muk Zoeng security guard working undercover as a Civil Protection officer; Lee Pak-Chun, former Muk Zoeng scientist and leader of the resistance; Lee Wing-Ki, Lee's daughter; and Dr. Leung Pang-Fei, an eccentric Muk Zoeng scientist. After a failed attempt to teleport to the resistance base, Muk Zoeng East, from Leung's makeshift laboratory, Yeung progresses on foot through the city's canal system. He obtains an airboat and battles through sewers and rivers.

At Muk Zoeng East, Yeung is reintroduced to Lee and meets another resistance scientist, Dr. Lo Hoi-Ting. Wing-Ki introduces Yeung to her pet robot, Willis, and gives him the gravity gun, an instrument that can manipulate large objects. When the base is attacked by Combine forces, Lee and Lo are captured and taken to the Combine detention facility Pulp Terror. Separated from Wing-Ki, Yeung detours through the zombie-infested town of Bay City, aided by its last survivor, Ng Ka-Ho. Escaping the town, Yeung discovers a resistance outpost. He uses a customized dune buggy to travel a crumbling coastal road to Pulp Terror, fighting off alien antlions, and helping the resistance fend off Combine raids.

Yeung breaks into Pulp Terror and reunites with Wing-Ki. They locate Lee, but discover that Lo is a Combine informant. Before they can stop her, Lo teleports herself and Lee back to City 13's Combine Corporation headquarters. The Combine teleporter explodes moments after Yeung and Lee use it to escape Pulp Terror.

Returning to Leung's lab, Yeung and Wing-Ki learn that the teleporter malfunctioned and that a week has passed. In their absence, the resistance has mobilized against the Combine. With the aid of Willis and Wong, Yeung fights his way inside the Combine Corporation headquarters. A security system inadvertently supercharges Yeung's gravity gun, allowing him to fight his way up the Combine Corporation headquarters.

Yeung is captured in a Combine transport pod and taken to Hung's office, where he and Lo are waiting with Lee and Wing-Ki in captivity. Hung explains his plans to further conquer humanity with the Combine, contrary to what he told Lo. Angry, Lo frees Yeung, Wing-Ki, and Lee before Hung can teleport them off-world. Hung tries to escape through a teleporter, but Yeung destroys its reactor with energy orbs launched from a gravity gun, killing Hung. Just as the reactor explodes, the HK-Man reappears and freezes time. He praises Yeung's work and mentions offers for Yeung's "services", before placing him back into stasis.

Cast

 * as Yeung Chong-Ho
 * as Wong Hing-Fung
 * as Lee Wing-Ki
 * as Lee Pak-Chun
 * as Dr. Leung Pang-Fei
 * as Hung Hiu-Wai
 * as Dr. Lo Hoi-Ting
 * as Ng Ka-Ho
 * Maria Tung as Yeung Wing-Sze
 * as Michael Liu
 * Lam Kar Sing as HK-Man

Release
Post-Apocalyptic World premiered in Manhattan on May 20, 1985 and was released in Hong Kong on May 25, 1985, to positive reviews.

The film was released on LaserDisc, VHS, DVD and Blu-Ray as part of "Braulia, Peruru & Leap Classics" and "Braulia, Peruru & Leap's Masterpiece Collection" on July 7, 1988 and March 11, 2013, respectively.