Infernal Affairs

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Andy Lau as Senior Inspector Lau Kin-ming (劉健明), Hon’s mole in the Hong Kong Police Force.
  • Edison Chen as young Lau Kin-ming
• Tony Leung as Chan Wing-yan (陳永仁), an undercover cop in Hon’s triad.
  • Shawn Yue as young Chan Wing-yan
• Anthony Wong as Superintendent Wong Chi-shing (黃志誠), Chan’s superior.
• Eric Tsang as Hon Sam (韓琛), the triad boss.
• Chapman To as “Silly” Keung (傻強), Hon’s henchman.
• Gordon Lam as Inspector B (大B; Big B), Lau’s subordinate who is also a mole in the HKPF.
• Sammi Cheng as Mary, Lau’s fiancée.
• Kelly Chen as Lee Sum-yee (李心兒), Chan’s psychiatrist.
• Berg Ng as Senior Inspector Cheung (張Sir), Wong’s subordinate.
• Wan Chi-keung as Officer Leung (梁Sir), the Chief Superintendent of the Internal Affairs department.
• Dion Lam as Del Piero (迪路), Hon’s henchman.
• Elva Hsiao as May, Chan’s ex-girlfriend.
• Hui Kam-fung as Officer Yip (葉Sir), Chan’s cadet school principal

Storyline:

Chen Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

About Movie:

Infernal Affairs is a Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak from a screenplay written by Mak and Felix Chong. The film stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Sammi Cheng and Kelly Chen. It is the first in the Infernal Affairs series and is followed by Infernal Affairs II and Infernal Affairs III (both 2003).

The film was theatrically released on 12 December 2002. At the 22nd Hong Kong Film Awards, Infernal Affairs won seven out of the sixteen awards it was nominated for—including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (Leung), and Best Supporting Actor (Wong). It also won in those categories at the 40th Golden Horse Awards and 8th Golden Bauhinia Awards. The film was selected as Hong Kong’s entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 76th Academy Awards but was not nominated.

Miramax Films acquired the United States distribution rights and gave it a limited US theatrical release in 2004. Martin Scorsese remade the film in 2006 as The Departed, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture as well as Academy Award for Best Director, Scorsese’s first and only Oscar in his career, and Best Adapted Screenplay.

A 4K remaster of the Infernal Affairs trilogy was released on 12 December 2022, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of Infernal Affairs.

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