''Mismatched Couples'' (a.k.a. ''Love Meets the Match'') is a 1985 Hong Kong action

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film directed by Yuen Woo-ping and starring himself alongside

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. The film was created during hip hop culture's height of popularity in the 1980s, and in addition to martial arts, incorporates

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, popping, locking, and the electric boogaloo.

Plot

Eddie (

) is a martial artist and hip hop dancer. In the film, he befriends a poor old man named Mini ( Yuen Woo-ping). Mini later falls in love with Eddie's older sister, Ying (Wong Wan-si). Later, Eddie's cousin, Stella (

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), falls for him, but Eddie actually has his eyes on Anna (Anna Kamiyama). Meanwhile, Kenny (Kenny Perez) also has his eyes on Anna, while there is a fighting champion (

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) who is obsessed with fighting Eddie.

Cast

External links

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