Chu tai chiu fung

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Jordan Chan, Ka-Tung Lam, and Richie Jen in Chu tai chiu fung (2016)

In early 1997, mobsters Kwai Ching-hung, Yip Kwok-foon and Cheuk Tze-keung, whom have never met one another, are all in Hong Kong. Thereafter, rumour has it that Hong Kong's three most notor... Read allIn early 1997, mobsters Kwai Ching-hung, Yip Kwok-foon and Cheuk Tze-keung, whom have never met one another, are all in Hong Kong. Thereafter, rumour has it that Hong Kong's three most notorious mobsters, known in the underworld as the "Three Kings of Thieves", are plotting toget... Read allIn early 1997, mobsters Kwai Ching-hung, Yip Kwok-foon and Cheuk Tze-keung, whom have never met one another, are all in Hong Kong. Thereafter, rumour has it that Hong Kong's three most notorious mobsters, known in the underworld as the "Three Kings of Thieves", are plotting together to score a final hit before the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong. However, none ar... Read all

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6.9/10

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Awards
- 11 wins & 13 nominations total

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7yoggwork

Best Hong Kong film in the first eight months of 2016

Best Hong Kong film in the first eight months of 2016. Three actors, three stories, all have a slight taste of old Hong Kong films. It seems that if you want to inherit the tradition of Hong Kong Film, you can't think about the trial! The shortcomings are that the whole is not bold and somewhat shrunken. The portrayal of the ugly faces of mainland officials is also a bright spot.

5mikayakatnt

Blue Balled by This Movie

The trailer, plot, and characters leave you wanting more than what the film presents you.

There is a sense of irony as the characters seek a larger payout but never come to it... like how this story promises more but never achieves its goal.

Feels like the movie was good but misleading. Only last half of the film proved most interesting.

6madbird-61243

A boring award winning movie again

Just not my cup of tea. Feeling disappointed. Ruinned my evening.

9jorgebenavides-95736

An unexpected and completely original tour-de-force..

Such an impressive piece of filmmaking. Shrewd plot line never overshadows the carefully delineated characters and their occasionally unsettling and in a few instances poignantly relatable lives. The cynic in me suspects, perhaps a bit unfairly, many will approach this film anticipating and maybe even hoping for yet another one-dimensional, albeit slickly well-crafted Hong Kong action flick, and with the renowned names synonymous with brilliant shoot-em-ups attached who would blame them? And yet, if you're like me and greedily ingest your South East Asian films only when piled on with some explosively creative and original flavor, then this one is for you, my friend.

8THE-BEACON-OF-MOVIES-RAFA

Try it and judge for yourself ( C+Movie ) My Ratings 8/10

The film is a fictionalized story about three real-life notorious Hong Kong mobsters, Kwai Ping-hung , Yip Kai Foon and Cheung Tze-keung, who are portrayed in the film by Gordon Lam, Richie Jen and Jordan Chan respectively

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Trivia
The three criminals Kwai Ching-hung, Yip Kwok-foon and Cheuk Tze-keung are based on with their names altered, jeweler robber Kwai Ping-hung, notorious to such extent that he was placed on Interpol's Red Notice; bank robber Yip Kai-foon, known for his use of an AK-47 during robberies; and kidnapper Cheung Tze-keung, known for his kidnaps of billionaires in Hong Kong.

Kwai was sentenced to 24-year for multiple firearm and explosive charges, Yip was arrested in 1996 and sentenced to 41 years and Cheung was sentenced to death and was executed in China on 1998 (he was in hiding there in 1996).

Kwai was released in January 2020 and thus was deported to the United States as he held a passport there. Yip remained in prison until his death in 2017 thus Kwai became the last living criminals of the trio.

Goofs
Cheuk Tze-keung drives a Lamborghini Diablo GT (clearly noticeable by it's fixed headlight and distinctive front bumper), which for a film set in early 1997, was not available until 1999.