Yellowthread Street is one of those poor man's attempt to bring the British version of "Black Rain" onto our TV screens..<br/><br/>Well basically it's all about these cops solving crimes in and around Hong Kong's mean streets..<br/><br/>It was worth the effort but I think the reason the ITV chiefs axed it because it wasn't really entertaining enough to say that it will make another series..<br/><br/>I remember the series quite well especially most of the stars..<br/><br/>Well, I don't know if Yellowthread Street will make it back to our screen as one those "classics". If it does, I'd probably see it again.. Why there wasn't a second series I don't know. This was brilliant. It was risky, dangerous, crazy, and had all the hall marks of Hong Kong's movie industry bar the sub-titles. Highly underrated in its day but it now looks ahead of its time. <br/><br/>Shot like a movie. It would probably be in High Def. nowadays but in those days it was an innovation to go very art house in what was essentially just a cop show. But the plot lines were surreal and exotic. The lighting was dark and highly influenced by the neon signs that abound in Hong Kong. <br/><br/>Broody and strangely witty. Beneath all the hairy chested machismo was an art house sensibility and of course that Kung Fu influence long before Tarrantino got the message.<br/><br/>Lawrence Gray, one of the writers by the way ended up writing Chinese and Indian movies and has become something of a literary figure in Asia. He's currently producing movies.
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