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The Protector

1985 · Film · 94 min

Directed by James Glickenhaus

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Billy Wong is a New York City cop whose partner is gunned down during a robbery. Billy and his new partner, Danny Garoni, are working security at a fashion show when a wealthy man's daughter, Laura Shapiro, is kidnapped. The Federal authorities suspect that Laura's father is involved with Mr. Ko, a Hong Kong drug kingpin, so the NYC police commissioner sends the two cops to Hong Kong to investigate.

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  1. NeutralpessimizerSep 20, 2025

    Fairly silly conversation. The nudity was only in the American version of the movie; in the Hong Kong version, the women were fully dressed.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Protector_(1985_film)#Hong_Kong

    Also, I'm pretty sure that Europeans would be upset if there were a bunch of naked women sitting at a table packaging enormous amounts of cocaine at a school board meeting, especially if the tv decided to show this by itself.

    Although I might be wrong, seeing as Denmark had legal distribution of child pornography for a decade, with people arguing in Parliament that the sacrifice of those few children possibly saved many others from being molested.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_Climax_Corporation#Child_pornography

    A good* documentary on that is "Candy Film - Da børneporno var lovlig" (2016)

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    [*] for certain values of good that include tears and nausea.