If you like Hong Kong gang movies and police movies, who are the heroes in your mind?
1: Dillon, Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung "The True Colors of Heroes" (1986)
officially opened a golden age for nearly 20 years for Hong Kong police, bandits, and gang-themed movies. Elements such as gunfights, rivers and lakes, and car chases have gradually begun to appear in various types of Hong Kong films in the future.
Not only was the film and television industry deeply affected, but Mark Lee's classic coat + sunglasses and match style in the film became the object of imitation among young people in Hong Kong at that time.
2: Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau "God of Gamblers" (1989)
The background music of Fa Ge's appearance and the Feodora chocolate that must be eaten in every gamble are unsurpassable classics in the hearts of all gambling fans, and the protagonist Gao Jin is also the public's first impression of Chow Yun-fat.
In addition to director Wang Jing's clever integration of family, love, and brotherhood in the movie, the classic gang movie elements of gunfights and big actions are also all shown in the movie.
also added god-like gambling skills, amnesia, split personality and other twists to make the whole movie ups and downs and more dramatic tension.
3: Chow Yun-fat, Yip Qianwen "Bloody Heroes" (1989)
In the minds of many men, the best representative of bloody romance, especially the fierce shootout in the abandoned church at the end of the movie, made all the audiences in front of the screen watch their blood pumping!
The movie also greatly changes the established impression of the cold-blooded and ruthless killer on the traditional big screen, the protagonist Xiaozhuang not only talks about the morality and principles of the rivers and lakes, but also adds a bit of charm to this character with a sad and gentle temperament all over his body!
4: Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, Chung Chuhong "Across the Seas" (1991)
One of the few gang-themed movies in Hong Kong with the theme of thieves and thieves.
In addition to the wonderful gunfights and confrontation scenes, the famous director John Woo also added a lot of comedy and romance elements to the film, and depicted the complex feelings between the three protagonists vividly and delicately.
Especially the part of the three-person waltz dance in the movie has become a classic clip that many fans will want to take out from time to time to revisit!
5：郑伊健、陈小春 《古惑仔》（1996）
Abandon the old-fashioned setting that only focused on the gang boss in the past, and instead tell the life of the protagonist who joined the gang in his youth and roamed the rivers and lakes with his brother.
The huge success of the "Crazy Boy" series of films, at the same time, many young people began to blindly follow in the footsteps of the protagonists of the movies to join underground gangs, which plunged Hong Kong's law and order into darkness at that time, so the public evaluation of the series of films is quite polarized.
6: Tony Leung, Liu Qingyun, Shao Meiqi "Dark Flower" (1998)
The film doesn't have the warmth and emotion of other Hong Kong gang cop movies, instead of a gloomy tone and a chilling secret fight between the two protagonists.
The whole film is full of absurdity, pessimism and despair, while revealing many dark sides of humanity and a sense of powerlessness in the face of fate.
7: Andy Lau, Liu Qingyun, Meng Jiahui "Dark War" (1999)
There are many similarities with "Dark Flower", and they are both very representative two-hero movies.
But the overall style of "Dark War" is clearer, although the plot is full of exciting and thrilling elements such as revenge, underworld, and spy war, everyone survives in the end.
And "Dark War" has one more emotional line than "Dark Flower", which adds a little romantic atmosphere to the plot.
8: Huang Qiusheng, Wu Zhenyu "Gunfire" (1999)
The quietness and blankness, which are completely different from other Hong Kong police films, are what make the movie "Gunfire" so intriguing.
shows the charm of police movies different from "Dark Flower" and "Dark War", and uses simple dialogue to present many details.
Among them, the department store's zero pair of gun scenes and perfect composition have raised the audio-visual sense of the whole movie to a new level.
9: Tony Leung and Andy Lau "Infernal Affairs" (2002)
With a compact plot and a simple and neat narrative style, it has won the love of the audience, although it does not have the action elements and hot visual effects of Hong Kong police films in the past, but it uses its ups and downs to show the contradictions and conflicts between the characters vividly.
In particular, the final death of undercover policeman Chen Yongren made "Infernal Affairs" break out of the framework of ordinary police and gangster films, and made it a classic in the minds of many Hong Kong police and gangster fans.
10: Wu Yanzu and Cecilia Cheung "Mong Kok Dark Night" (2004)
Director Er Dongsheng took three years to complete, although it is a police film, but more foreshadowing and details have been added, and the turmoil caused by crises in the film is set off through accurate and delicate depiction.
In particular, the scene in the film where a novice mistakenly kills a tenant is even more exciting, both the picture and the sound effects are just right, making the clip more dramatic.