Dangerous Encounters of the First Kind (Chinese: 第一類型危險) is a 1980 Hong Kong[1] crime film directed by Tsui Hark.

[2] Paul manufactures a bomb using a wristwatch for its timer and he and his two friends Lung and Ko set it off in a movie theater for fun, avoiding any casualties.

After being fired from her job at a printing press for pouring ink on a coworker during an argument, she argues with her older brother Tan, the police officer assigned to investigate the bombing, and impales a cat on a fence post out of anger.

Based on the survivor's testimony, the police link the attack to Paul's previous attempt to exchange the money order at the bank.

Wan-Chu offers a deal to a local gang that previously harassed her and meets their leader, Uncle Hark, who works as a club DJ.

Nigel attempts to carry Wan-Chu away but when she struggles out of his grasp she falls and gets impaled through her head by a fence post where she earlier killed a cat in the same way.

The police arrive and collect bullets lodged in the wall but also find the money orders under the mouse cage in the house, causing the chief to take Tan off the case.

When Paul's face is shown on TV in connection with the bombings, the three boys pack their backpacks and hide out in a large cemetery crowded with gravestones, arguing among themselves.

Back in the city, Tan attacks two Mormon missionaries on the street after mistaking them for members of Nigel's gang and is brought into the office to be taken off duty for a few days.

Ko takes the machine gun from Tan and gleefully shoots it into the cemetery as a montage of photographs from the 1967 Hong Kong riots is shown.

Tsui Hark hired Lin Chen-Chi after seeing her work in films produced by Shaw Brothers Studio and noticing that her face was catlike.

The score for the film was taken from various sources including Goblin's soundtrack to George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead[4] and Jean-Michel Jarre's album Oxygène.

[5] In the original version, the teenagers make bombs and leave them in public places, a reference to the 1967 rebellion in Hong Kong.

[7] On this release, the footage that was originally removed from the theatrical version has been sourced from a VHS tape commissioned by director Tsui Hark during production when he was ordered to make changes to the film.