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Chui lung

  • 2017
  • 2h 8m
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
4.8K
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Andy Lau and Donnie Yen in Chui lung (2017)
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An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.

  • Directors
    • Jason Kwan
    • Jing Wong
    • Aman Chang
  • Writers
    • Koon-Nam Lui
    • Jing Wong
    • Ming-Ho Yip
  • Stars
    • Donnie Yen
    • Andy Lau
    • Philip Keung
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.7/10
    4.8K
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    • Directors
      • Jason Kwan
      • Jing Wong
      • Aman Chang
    • Writers
      • Koon-Nam Lui
      • Jing Wong
      • Ming-Ho Yip
    • Stars
      • Donnie Yen
      • Andy Lau
      • Philip Keung
    • 29User reviews
    • 26Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 5 nominations total

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    Donnie Yen
    Donnie Yen
    • Crippled Ho
    Andy Lau
    Andy Lau
    • Lee Rock
    Philip Keung
    Philip Keung
    • Will
    Wilfred Lau
    • Wayne
    Kang Yu
    • Chad
    Kent Cheng
    Kent Cheng
    • Piggy
    Bryan Larkin
    Bryan Larkin
    • Ernest Hunt
    Ben Ngai-Cheung Ng
    Ben Ngai-Cheung Ng
    • Chubby
    • (as Ben Ng)
    Kent Tong
    Kent Tong
    • Tong
    • (as Chun-Yip Tong)
    Dongdong Xu
    Dongdong Xu
    • Rose
    • (as Raquel Xu)
    Michelle Hu
    • Jane
    Niki Chow
    Niki Chow
    • May
    Sahajak Boonthanakit
    Sahajak Boonthanakit
    • General Piyamas
    Chloe Chan
    Chloe Chan
    • Alva
    Kam-Fung Chan
    Michael Wai-Man Chan
    Michael Wai-Man Chan
    • Master Dane
    • (as Wai-Man Chan)
    Yiu-Wing Chin
    • At Cripple Ho's wedding
    Lawrence Chou
    • Willy
    • Directors
      • Jason Kwan
      • Jing Wong
      • Aman Chang
    • Writers
      • Koon-Nam Lui
      • Jing Wong
      • Ming-Ho Yip
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    5lucian-g

    What happened with Hong Konk movies these days?

    I am remembering the days when i was watching at least 7-8 films from hong kong cinema each year and one or even two movies from these would have make my back-hair lift of excitement and awesomeness. But since 2008 or 2009 forward, i must say, the chinese/hong kong movie industry has become something without head and tale. The screenplays are at the lowest level of intelligence, the editing of every film is downright baaaad, they are trying so hard to copy american movies, that it makes me almost wanting to give up watching any movie from HK or the main land. Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Donnie Yen... it's been a decade since any of them had made a good movie (the last big HK movie beeing IpMan - first part from 2008). I am only hoping that someone will appear, someone new (a director and writer), although is hard; i think the audience in china is very uneducated and they love films that are so easy to swallow, and they are many, there strenght is in their numbers. But who knows, maybe with not so many money, but with conviction, a young writer/director will get his chance, you never know. Greetings from Bucharest, Romania! :)
    8moviexclusive

    Featuring Donnie Yen in his most significant acting breakthrough since 'Ip Man', this compelling gangster drama is his and Wong Jing's best in a long while

    Just when you've come to hate him more than love him for truly frustrating duds such as 'From Vegas to Macau 3' and 'Mission Milano', Hong Kong's most prolific filmmaker Wong Jing compels you to take him seriously once again with the best gangster drama we've seen in a long while.

    Written, produced and co-directed by Wong Jing, his latest period epic charts the rise and fall of two of Hong Kong's most infamous real- life characters from the 60s and 70s – the one-time most powerful drug lord in Hong Kong Ng Sik-ho (or better known as 'Crippled Ho') and the notoriously corrupt detective Lui Lok (or otherwise known as 'Lee Rock').

    Perhaps because he had already previously told Lee Rock's story, Wong Jing anchors this movie around Sik-ho (Donnie Yen), who first steps foot in Hong Kong in 1960 as an illegal immigrant from Chaozhou with his three buddies (Philip Keung, Wilfred Lau and Kang Yu) and younger brother Peter (Jonathan Lee). Although engaged in odd jobs, the quartet find more lucrative means of employment by being paid to make up the numbers in street fights. One such fight is that purportedly between rivalling triad heads Comic (Jason Wong) and Grizzly Bear (Ricky Yi). Unfortunately, the fight turns ugly with the arrival of the riot police led by the British Superintendent Hunter (Bryan Larkin), and before the night is over, Sik-ho ends up in a run-in with the arrogant and supercilious 'gwei-lo'.

    All that is witnessed by Lee Rock (Andy Lau) and his right-hand man Piggy (Kent Cheng), who spies Sik-ho's superior fighting skills and decides to recruit him and his buddies while they are in lock-up. As circumstances would have it, in order to save one of his buddies caught stealing from mafia boss Bro Chubby (Ben Ng), Sik-ho will end up working too for the former, running his drug business within the legendary Kowloon Walled City.

    It is within this hotbed of lawlessness that Lee will venture into one day. Things go south obviously, and the subsequent turn of events binds Sik-ho and Lee in a complex brotherhood embrace – Sik-ho springs to Lee's rescue but ends up caught in the crosshairs of another parallel ambush sprung by Sir Ngan in collusion with Chubby. In the ensuing scuffle, Chubby breaks Sik-ho's right leg as punishment, thus birthing a hardened and even more driven 'Crippled Ho' upon his discharge from hospital.

    Sik-ho's transformation comes at the midway point, and it is in the second hour that he truly comes into his own. Not only does he resist Lee's manoeuvres to alter the state of play, Sik-ho takes matters into his own hands against Lee's better advice in order to exact his own vendetta against Superintendent Hunter. There is a lot of plot crammed into a slightly-past-two-hour runtime, but its machinations consistently revolve around the dynamic between Sik-ho and Lee; an especially poignant scene near the end has a visibly embittered Sik- ho pointing out squarely to Lee the personal costs and consequences of the latter's actions over the decade plus on the both of them, and the duo coming to recognise how little of life, death, or anything in between they can truly control.

    Oh yes, the movie is equal parts plot and character-driven, and Wong Jing's (rare) achievement is how he balances both perfectly to deliver a sprawling but constantly spellbinding account of the fates and fortunes of his two key male protagonists. Due credit also goes to his co-director cum director-of-photography Jason Kwan, who not only brings a vivid cinematic feel to the visuals but also imposes rigour in crafting and building up several pivotal sequences, both of which are too often lost on a frequently sloppy Wong Jing.

    More prominently, 'Chasing the Dragon' has been sold as a showcase of Donnie Yen's acting chops, and sure enough, Yen doesn't disappoint; in fact, as Sik-ho, Yen probably makes the most significant breakthrough of his career since 'Ip Man'. His portrayal of Sik-ho is understated, nuanced and impressively authentic, especially in depicting his character's transformation from underdog to kingpin. Yen and Lau don't share as many scenes together as we'd have liked, but the duo have great chemistry when they do, embodying the genuine camaraderie between their characters as well as the seeds of distrust, suspicion and resentment sowed by their own respective ambitions, egos and greed.

    It should also be said that this gangster tale is always careful not to glorify its socially deviant protagonists – principally for fear of running afoul of Chinese censors – and is therefore less unhinged than the early 90s flicks of Sik-ho and/or Lee. In fact, Yen and Lau aren't playing so much criminals as they are anti-heroes, so not only are there redeeming qualities about their characters in this movie, both will come in an epilogue set thirty years later to realise and regret the folly of their ways. Yet these politically (and commercially) savvy considerations aside, Wong Jing's latest is still a solid and solidly entertaining example of the genre that is bloody, violent and thrilling.

    Indeed, there is much to enjoy in this period gangster epic, from the storytelling to the characters to the actors and as well to the richly detailed sets of Tsim Sha Tsui, Wan Chai and Kowloon Walled City. This dragon is one you won't mind chasing from start to finish, and we guarantee you it will leave you on a visceral high.
    7lojitsu

    Who says we can't win?

    Here's The Lowedown on "Chasing the Dragon" (NR - 2017 - China)...who says we can't win?

    Genre: Action/Foreign My Score: 7.4

    Cast=8 Acting=9 Plot=7 Ending=8 Story=5 Violent=9 Pace=4 F/X=7 Crime=8 Dubbed=9

    An illegal immigrant from Mainland China sneaks into corrupt British-colonized Hong Kong in 1963, transforming himself into a ruthless and emerging drug lord.

    "Life or Death...Poverty or Riches...it is all destined." When I saw this was Donnie Yen and Andy Lau...I jumped at the chance to buy this. It was a solid movie all around. The only issue I had was with the pace...it's 128 minutes and seemed like a lot longer. I guess in the 60's everyone was corrupt. This period piece is worth a look if you like foreign crime movies.
    7Moreme_NB

    Not Yen's usual fighting scene

    A good drama of wonderful collaboration of Yen and Lau. Telling the fans about mafia and corrupt cops back then in Hong Kong is something.

    But definitely we may not find Yen's usual fighting scenes. As rumbles are here and there, we have seen how it is supposed to be by The Raid, so from that on, audience expect same thrill. But it is not. Yes this is not Yen's martial art film, but a brawl is always a brawl, should be depicted as real as possible. Using multi cameras and many takes like Hollywood does, would be better, to deliver the violence.

    I also have no idea, why smoking scenes have to be the way to show the brotherhood. It is too much. Sharing one cigarette is weird for all the wealth they possess eventually. Unless it has been a habit since they were zero. Sharing weed makes sense more, but I guess there is certain reason, just a cigarette not weed.

    My compliment is also for the western actors, they act so natural.

    One more thing, the reunion of actors from TVB Hong Kong 1980's, "Kwee Cheng", "Ho Tu", "Oey Yok Soe" and of course, "Yo Ko" himself, is quite a fun.
    bettycjung

    Gangsta movie, Hong Kong style

    6/10/18. It's a gangsta movie, Hong Kong style. Interesting backstory - not the type of story the current Chinese regime would allow, given the violence portrayed. However, because the time period when all this was going on was during the British colonial times, and then it was ok because such violence was inspired by colonialism. Whatever. Lots of shooting and violence of all kinds.

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    • Trivia
      First collaboration between Donnie Yen and Andy Lau
    • Goofs
      AT the funeral scene in Thailand Ho lights a roll of $100 bills. But the bills have the 2006 redesign.
    • Connections
      Follows Lee Rock (1991)

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    • Release date
      • September 28, 2017 (Hong Kong)
    • Countries of origin
      • Hong Kong
      • China
    • Official site
      • Official site (Japan)
    • Languages
      • Cantonese
      • Mandarin
      • English
      • Thai
      • Teochew
    • Also known as
      • Chasing the Dragon
    • Filming locations
      • Chaozhou, Guangdong, China
    • Production companies
      • Mega-Vision Project Production
      • Super Bullet Pictures
      • Bona Film Group
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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $456,854
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $138,346
      • Oct 1, 2017
    • Gross worldwide
      • $87,965,942
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    • Runtime
      2 hours 8 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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