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Manufacturing just fifty grams of meth in China will earn you a death sentence, and Timmy Choi (Louis Koo) has manufactured tons of it. After a violent lab accident, he's in the custody of Captain Zhang (Sun Honglei), and now he has only one chance to avoid execution: turn informant and help Zhang’s undercover team take down the powerful cartel he’s been cooking for. But as the uneasy allies are forced to compress months of police work into just 72 sleepless hours, the increasingly desperate police are quickly stretched past their limits. As things spin wildly out of control, the line between duty and recklessness is blurred, and it becomes unclear whether the cop or the criminal truly has the upper hand.
Long considered the master of the Hong Kong crime thriller, Johnnie To’s first mainland production eschews “two guns at once” mayhem in favor of atmosphere and a tightly-wound plot punctuated with impeccably choreographed bursts of violence, making DRUG WAR an intricate puzzle box of a film that ignited a firestorm of controversy in its homeland.
Original Release
11/15/2012
US Release
05/16/2013
Cast
Name | Character |
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Honglei Sun | Captain Zhang / Captain Zhang Lei |
Louis Koo | Timmy Choi / Choi Tin-ming/Timmy Choi |
Yi Huang | Yang Xiaobei |
Yunxiang Gao | Xu Guoxiang |
Wallace Chung | Guo Weijun / Guo Weiju |
Guangjie Li | Chen Shixong |
Tao Guo | Senior Dumb |
Jing Li | Junior Dumb |
Hoi-Pang Lo | Birdie |
Eddie Cheung | Su |
Directors
Writers
Nai-Hoi Yau, Ryker Chan, Xi Yu, Ka-Fai Wai
Cast
Name | Character |
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Honglei Sun | Captain Zhang / Captain Zhang Lei |
Louis Koo | Timmy Choi / Choi Tin-ming/Timmy Choi |
Yi Huang | Yang Xiaobei |
Yunxiang Gao | Xu Guoxiang |
Wallace Chung | Guo Weijun / Guo Weiju |
Guangjie Li | Chen Shixong |
Tao Guo | Senior Dumb |
Jing Li | Junior Dumb |
Hoi-Pang Lo | Birdie |
Eddie Cheung | Su |
Ka-Tung Lam | East Lee |
Michelle Ye | Sal |
Suet Lam | Fatso |
Ting Yip Ng | Hatred |
Philip Keung | Darkie |
Tingting Gan | Haha's Wife |
Ping Hao | Bro Haha |
Taishen Cheng | Captain Liu (Erzhou) / Captain Liu |
Ziyi Wang | Lin |
Cong Xiao | Driver |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Johnnie To | Producer |
Ka-Fai Wai | Producer |
Elaine Chu | Producer |
Yang Yue | Producer |