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Infernal Affairs

Opens on September 17

Director: Alan Mak, Andrew Lau Wai-keung Run Time: 101 min. Rating: R Release Year: 2002 Language: Cantonese w/ English subtitles

Starring: Andy Lau, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen, Tony Leung Chiu-wai

Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The set-up is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthless triad by posing as a gangster, and a gangster who becomes a police officer in order to serve as a spy for the underworld—find themselves locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, each racing against time to unmask the other. As the shifting loyalties, murky moral compromises, and deadly betrayals mount, Infernal Affairs raises haunting questions about what it means to live a double life, lost in a labyrinth of conflicting identities and allegiances.

 

Part of the Hong Kong Quarter in Film Geeks SD’s BACK IN ACTION Series

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