Fantasy Mission Force
1983 1h 30m movie Film Taiwan

Fantasy Mission Force

迷你特攻隊

Fantasy Mission Force is a Taiwan–Hong Kong co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.

Synopsis

迷你特攻隊

A force of loners and fighters is put together to try and rescue the generals and save the war effort with the promise of gold and pardons of past crimes.

Taiwan × Hong Kong Co-Production

Taiwan (lead)Hong Kong

Other Taiwan×Hong Kong titles

The 1982–1984 Taiwan Window

In the crowded 1982-1984 Taiwan release window, Fantasy Mission Force sits at #11 of 11. The leaderboard below contextualises its neighbours.

  1. That Day, on the Beach
    #1

    That Day, on the Beach

    ★ 7.8 · 1983
  2. In Our Time
    #2

    In Our Time

    ★ 7.2 · 1982
  3. The Boys from Fengkuei
    #3

    The Boys from Fengkuei

    ★ 7.1 · 1983
  4. The Sandwich Man
    #4

    The Sandwich Man

    ★ 7.0 · 1983
  5. Growing Up
    #5

    Growing Up

    ★ 7.0 · 1983
  6. Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?
    #6

    Papa, Can You Hear Me Sing?

    ★ 6.8 · 1983
  7. Shaolin vs. Lama
    #7

    Shaolin vs. Lama

    ★ 6.8 · 1983
  8. The Green, Green Grass of Home
    #8

    The Green, Green Grass of Home

    ★ 6.5 · 1982

The 1980s Taiwan Landscape

1983 was the decade’s peak output year for Taiwan — 8 titles released, including Fantasy Mission Force. Bars below show how the 1980s stacked up year by year (20 total).

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Action + Adventure in Taiwan

6 Taiwan titles in our catalog blend the Action and Adventure genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Fantasy Mission Force itself).

Position in Catalog

Released alongside 7 other Taiwan films in 1983.

The 15th Taiwan title from Taiwan we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1972).

Our Taiwan catalog contains 174 titles in total (149 films).

Audience Engagement

41
Reviews
76th
Review-volume percentile
71st
Popularity percentile

41 audience reviews — more than 76% of Taiwan films in our index.

Popularity sits at the 71th percentile among Taiwan films.

Thematic Fingerprint

Tags on Fantasy Mission Force, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.

Distinctive themes · rare across catalog
  • insanity · 4
  • nazi · 3
  • schlock · 2
  • jiangshi · 2
  • nazisploitation (nazi exploitation film) · 1
  • amazon women · 1
  • 迷你特攻队 · 1
  • mo lai tau · 1
Recurring themes · common across catalog
  • taiwan · 14
Mainstream tags · widely used across catalog
  • kung fu · 121
  • musical · 71
  • world war ii · 55

Reception Benchmarks

4.8
TMDB Rating
41
Audience Reviews
Polarizing
Critical Tier

Ranked #166 of 174 Taiwan films indexed here (5th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -1.8 points below the Taiwan average of 6.6/10.

Among Taiwan Action productions specifically: #20 of 21 (top 95%).

Production Details

Primary CountryTaiwan
All Production CountriesTaiwan, Hong Kong
Original LanguageChinese
Spoken LanguagesMandarin, Cantonese
Production CompaniesCheung Ming Film, Chang Chiang Film (Taiwan) Co.
Runtime1h 30m
Release DateFebruary 13, 1983
IMDbtt0079509