Country: Russia
Year: 2004
Duration: 123'
Inspector Wing is the best policeman in Hong Kong, but
when his squad is decimated by the Gang of Five, a group of young
criminals that sadistically kills policemen for fun, he is thrown into
the depths of desperation and alcoholism. Frank, a homeless youth who
dreams of becoming a policemen, pretends to be his colleague and helps
him regain faith in himself. Wing gets even with the gang, which is led
by blood-thirsty Joe.
"I hope the audience will acknowledge the fact that it's the acting that
makes San ging chaat goo si a winner rather than the dangerous high
jinks. Journalists have been asking me all the time what breakthrough
the film will bring in the action scenes or how dangerous the latest
stunts will be. I believe, however, that all the action can work only
with credible storylines and good acting." (Benny Chan)
Biography
film director
Benny Chan
(Hong Kong, 1961-2020) was among the most famous directors, screenwriters and producers in Hong Kong. After debuting in 1990 with A Moment of Romance, and after filming The Magic Crane in 1993, he earned a Hong Kong Film Awards nomination for Best Director for Big Bullet (1996). In 1998 he began to collaborate with Jackie Chan, with whom he made a series of highly successful films such as Who Am I? (1998), New Police Story (2004), presented at the Torino Film Festival, Rob-B-Hood (2006) and Shaolin (2011). In 2013, his acclaimed thriller The White Storm opened the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival and closed the Rome Film Festival. Raging Fire, released posthumously, is his last film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Tian ruo you qing (A Moment of Romance, 1990), Dai zi hong lang (Son on the Run, 1991), Tian ruo you qing er (A Moment of Romance II, 1992), Hua! ying xiong (What a Hero, 1992), Xin xian hao shen zhen (The Magic Crane, 1993), Wang Jiao de tian kong (Man Wanted, 1995), Huan le shi guang (Happy Hour, 1995), Chung fung dui ji no foh gaai tau (Big Bullet, 1996), Ngo si sui (Senza nome e senza regole, 1998), Tejing xinrenlei (Gen-X Cops, 1999), Tejing xinrenlei 2 (Metal Mayhem, 2000), Shuang xiong (Heroic Duo, 2003), San ging chaat goo si (New Police Story, 2004), Sam cha hau (Divergence, 2005), Rob-B-Hood (2006), Nam yee boon sik (Invisible Target, 2007), Bo chi tung wah (Connected, 2008), Chun sing gai bei (City Under Siege, 2010), Shaolin (Shaolin - La leggenda dei monaci guerrieri, 2011), So duk (The White Storm, 2013), Ngai sing (Not Rated, 2016), Miao xing ren (Meow, 2017), Nou fo (Raging Fire, 2021).