A triad king walks free after 20 years. The Hong Kong he knew? Gone. His daughter? Missing. Chaos? Guaranteed.
A well-known gangster is released from prison, and decides look for his daughter with the help of a troubled young woman.
Acting
Alan Tang's weathered stillness—every frame reads like regret made flesh
Cinematography
Hong Kong at twilight, caught between old neon and new glass towers
Writing
The unlikely father-daughter bond that never cheapens into sentimentality
Director
Joe Cheung Tung-Cho
Alan Tang Kwong-Wing
Lung Ho Tin
Andy Lau
Wah
Simon Yam
Li Pang
Elizabeth Lee Mei-Fung
Tsin Siu Fung
May Lo Mei-Wei
Little Lung
Carrie Ng Ka-Lai
Tin's wife
David Wu
David
Melvin Wong
Officer Wong
Stephen Tung Wai
Cheung Yat Lui
Wong Chik-Sam
Tin's thug
Chang Yi
Toilet Repairman
Chan Chi-Fai
Yeung Kun
Ku Feng
Uncle Hung
Chan Ging
Tung
Dennis Chan Kwok-San
Hotel Manager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during Hong Kong's pre-handover anxiety, the film mirrors real fears about identity erasure—Lung's obsolete gangsterhood standing in for a generation's unease.
Alan Tang was a actual 1970s Cantonese cinema heartthrob who'd largely retired; Joe Cheung convinced him back for this swan song, and he never made another film. Lung's exhaustion? Not entirely acting.
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