A truck full of strangers, one secret gun, and Japanese troops at every turn — who makes it out alive?
During the anti-Japanese war, truck driver Lee Sing's secret mission is to transport weapons and supplies for the resistance fighters. Sing has to deliver a signal gun to guerrillas at ten on that night for launching an attack against the Japanese soldiers. He works for the Ko's family and he has to send the gun to the provincial city to prevent it from being bombed. Sing carries on his vehicle a group of passengers including a Chinese traitor, a guerilla, a compassionate nurse, a comfort woman on the run, a teacher and his pregnant wife. Sing is given a hard time by the Japanese troops on the road. The Japanese ransack the vehicle and they find the signal gun. All the males on board are being interrogated with torture, but the passengers pool their efforts to subdue the traitor and accomplish their mission.
Direction
Ng Wui squeezes maximum tension from a single vehicle set
Writing
Clever ensemble dynamics — every passenger has secrets and stakes
Acting
Ng Cho-Fan's worn, desperate Lee Sing anchors the chaos
Director
Ng Wui
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Hong Kong's leftist studio boom, this was explicitly anti-Japanese propaganda when such films were still politically risky in British-colony cinema.
The entire truck set was reportedly built on a soundstage with hydraulic rigs to simulate road movement — surprisingly ambitious for 1959 Hong Kong production.
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