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Film details
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Featuring
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Directors
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Country
Hong Kong
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Year
2002
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Genres
Crime Romance Thriller
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Type
Film
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Category
Fiction
Alternative titles
- Mou gaan dou Alternative
- Infernal Affairs Alternative
- Wujian dao Alternative
- Miu gaan diy Alternative
Introduction
“An immensely stylish affair... One may discern shades of Michael Mann’s Heat, an ambitious template but one which this movie... lives up to quite handsomely.”
Anthony Quinn, The Independent, 2004
This tale of two moles – a gangster (Andy Lau) posing as a cop, and a cop (Tony Leung) who has infiltrated the Triads – is a brisk, effective policier with moments of emotional complexity, such as the moving scene in which the cop who has sacrificed a decade of his life to undercover work gives a clandestine salute to the passing funeral procession of a colleague.
When the film was released in Hong Kong in late 2002, its success gave an unexpected boost to the down-in-the-dumps film industry. Two further instalments followed in 2003 – a prequel (Infernal Affairs II) and a sequel (Infernal Affairs III) – before Martin Scorsese remade it as The Departed (2006), with Matt Damon and Mark Wahlberg.
Not to be confused with Internal Affairs (1990), Mike Figgis’s equally dark and stylish take on police corruption.
Cast & Credits
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Cast
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Chan Wing-yan
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Inspector Lau Kin-ming
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Superintendent Wong
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Hon Sam
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Keung
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Inspector B
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Sir Inspector Cheung
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Officer Leung
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Mary
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Doctor Lee Sum-yee
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young Lau Kin-ming
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young Chan Wing-yan
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May
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Del Piero
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cadet school principal
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suspect
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stereo shop owner
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Elephant
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Double 8
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CIB team
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CIB team
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CIB team
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CIB team
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CIB team
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CIB team
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CIB team
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CIB team
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Sam's followers
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Officer Chan
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superintendent
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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cast member
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Credits
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Direction:
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Director
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Director
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Assistant Director (1st)
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Assistant Director (2nd)
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Continuity
Production:
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©
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Production Company
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Presented by
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Distributed by
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Presented by
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Presented by
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Produced by
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Line Producer
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Line Producer
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Unit Manager
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Production Manager
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Production Accountant
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Post-production Supervisor
Writing:
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Scriptwriter
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Scriptwriter
Photography:
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Director of Photography
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Director of Photography
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Steadicam Operator
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Focus Puller
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Focus Puller
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Gaffer
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Best Boy
Stills:
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Still Photographer
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Still Photographer
Special Effects:
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Visual Effects Supervisor
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Visual Effects Supervisor
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[Visual Effects] Project Supervisor
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[Visual Effects] Computer Animator
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[Visual Effects] Computer Animator
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[Visual Effects] Computer Animator
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Visual Effects Editor
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Visual Effects Editor
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Visual Effects Co-ordinator
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Visual Effects Co-ordinator
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Pyrotechnics
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Computer Graphic Design by
Editing:
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Editor
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Editor
Design:
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Visual Consultant
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Art Director
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Art Director
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Prop Master
Costumes:
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Costume Designer
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Wardrobe
Make-up:
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Make-up Artist
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Hairstylist
Music:
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Original Music
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Musician (Soloist)
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Musician (Bamboo Flageolet)
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Orchestrations/Arrangement
Sound:
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Sound Designer
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Sound Mixer
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Boom Operator
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Re-recording Mixer
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Re-recording Mixer
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Dialogue Recording
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Dialogue Recording
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Dialogue Recording
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Dialogue Editor
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[Sound] Effects Editor
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Dubbing Artists
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Foley Artist
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Foley Recordist
Stunts:
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Stunt Co-ordinator
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