Don't Play with Fire (1980) AKA Dangerous Encounter - 1st Kind [Director's Cut]

Triad bosses moonlighting as dance club DJs, adolescent boys who need just a nudge to plunge into a life of crime, crazed Vietnam veterans who sever limbs without hesitation, a teenage girl whose desire to die is trumped only by her passion to wreak havoc on society: this is the world of Don't Play With Fire, where bombs go off in movie theaters and cats rot on steel spikes.

The most subversive aspects of the film lay less in its bleak view of Hong Kong as an island of barbed wire and chain-link fences, ugly high rises and endless concrete, populated exclusively by neurotics, degenerates and psychotics, or even Tsui's casting of Americans and Britons as cardboard villains. The truly radical elements of Tsui's vision are to be found in his blending and upending of genres. To focus on Don't Play With Fire as some sort of call to arms to improve Hong Kong or as a truthful portrait of the colony's flaws and corruption is to ignore how outrageous and unrealistic much of the film is, a melange of grimy neo-realism, social satire, Langian film noir, horror, policier, teen angst and dark comedy.
The film hops between genres with the same nervous urgency it skips from one blood-soaked crisis to the next. Don't Play With Fire pulls off the trick of wearing its influences -including early Oshima (especially The Sun's Burial), Bunuel, gritty Italian and American cop films of the '70s, giallo (more than one critic has pointed to Mario Bava's Bay of Blood as the source of Tsui's "torturers become the tortured" aesthetic) and Roger Corman- while seeming completely sui generis. Don't Play With Fire is one of the few films that is truly Punk; like the best punk songs, the film is at once on love with its own gleeful nihilism, and appalled by it.(hkcinemagic)

Some notes regarding this version:
This is the director's cut version, compiled with a beautifully remastered print from France and the long lost scenes that didn't make it through censorship back in the days. They could be restored thanks to a VHS-copy owned by one of the movie's staff members.

Fansubbed by ebola and TonyL. The unreadable hardsubbed scenes have been softsubbed as well.