Infernal Affairs
November 4 - 6, 2022
The story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
Two of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s The Departed. The set-up is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthless triad by posing as a gangster, and a gangster who becomes a police officer in order to serve as a spy for the underworld—find themselves locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, each racing against time to unmask the other. As the shifting loyalties, murky moral compromises, and deadly betrayals mount, Infernal Affairs raises haunting questions about what it means to live a double life, lost in a labyrinth of conflicting identities and allegiances.
- Original Language Title: Mou gaan dou
- Director: Wa-Keung Lau, Alan Mak
- Principal Cast: Andy Lau, Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Anthony Chau-sang Wong
- Country: Hong Kong
- Year: 2002
- Running Time: 101 min.
- Producer: Wai-Keung Lau
- Screenplay: Alan Mak, Felix Chong
- Cinematographers: Yiu-Fai Lai, Wai-Keung Lau
- Editors: Curran Pang, Danny Pang
- Language: Cantonese
- US Distributor: Miramax
- International Sales: Media Asia Film