So Close

So Close
For other uses, see So Close (disambiguation).
So Close
Directed by Corey Yuen
Produced by Po Chu Chui
Written by Jeff Lau
Starring Shu Qi
Zhao Wei
Karen Mok
Distributed by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Classics (US)
Release date(s) Hong Kong August 22, 2002
Running time 110 min.
Language Cantonese
English

So Close (simplified Chinese: 夕阳天使; traditional Chinese: 夕陽天使; Chik yeung tin see) is a 2002 action film directed by Corey Yuen and starring Shu Qi, Karen Mok and Zhao Wei. The English title is derived from The Carpenters' song Close to You, which has a prominent role in the film.

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Plot

Ai Lin (Shu Qi) and her sister Ai Quan (Zhao Wei) are computer hackers, assassins and espionage specialists who use their late father's secret satellite technology to give them the advantage over their rivals and law enforcement. They first assassinate the chairman of a top Chinese company.

After their successful mission, Police Detective named Kong Yat Hung (Karen Mok) is assigned to their case and is able to track them down. The cat-and-mouse chase becomes more complicated when Lin and Ai Quan become the targets of the very people who originally hired them.

Ai Quan has always been the assistant at home in the computer, while Ai Lin, the older and better assassin, did the field work. The arrangement made Ai Quan jealous. She just wanted to do field work, but she didn't know that Ai Lin was trying to protect her. She thought Ai Lin refused her more active participation because she was less adept. When Ai Lin fell in love and decided to give up her secret life to marry, the sisters had a falling out. Ai Quan wanted to continue contract killing to prove that she could be as good a killer as her older sister.

Yat Hung tracks Ai Quan to a bakery where she is buying birthday cake, which leads to a frantic car chase. Ai Quan is cornered by the police and calls her sister Ai Lin at home, asking for her help. At the same time though, killers, hired by the man who contracted the assassination in the beginning of the film, attack Ai Lin at home and she is killed, with Yat Hung being framed for her death. Ai Quan offers Yat Hung a way to clear her name, but only if she agrees help avenge Ai Lin's death. Left with no choice, Yat Hung teams up with Ai Quan to find the true killer.

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v · Corey Yuen
1980s
Ninja in the Dragon's Den (1982) • Aces Go Places III: Our Man from Bond Street (1984) • Yes, Madam (1985) • No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) • Righting Wrongs (1986) • In The Blood (1987) • No Retreat, No Surrender 2 (1987) • Dragons Forever (1988)
1990s
She Shoots Straight (1990) • All for the Winner (1990) • Top Bet (1991) • Ghost Punting (1991) • Saviour of the Soul (1991) • Saviour of the Soul II (1992) • Fist of Fury 1991 II (1992) • Women on the Run (1993) • Fong Sai-yuk (1993) • Fong Sai-yuk II (1993) • The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994) • My Father Is a Hero (1995) • Mah-jong Dragon (1997) • Hero (1997) • 97 Legendary La Rose Noire (1997) • Enter the Eagles (1998)
2000s
So Close (2002) • The Transporter (2002) • The Twins Effect II (2004) • DOA: Dead or Alive (2006)

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