Wu Jian Dao

Andrew Lau, Alan Mak

IndieLisboa 2005 •

Hong Kong, China, Fiction, 2002, 101′

On the opposite sides of the law, two man with parellel fate are about to cross paths. Yan is na undercover cop in the triads, recruited before he graduated from the police academy. A decade of hard work has planted him deep in the largest triad in Hong Kong. Ming is a mole in the police force, assigned by his triad boss to become a cop when he was barely eighteen. With the exclusive intelligence on his triad rivals, Ming has been promoted swiftly to head the Criminal Intelligence Bureau. Both men are feeling increasingly trapped in the inferno between good and evil; they are merely shadows with no identities. But on one fateful evening, all means point to an end: Ming is assigned to a police operation to bust none other than his own triad boss, while the police intelligence originates from their mole Yan, who happens to be the boss’s most trusted henchmen. As the operation unfolds, both sides realize there is a mole amongst themselves. To make things even worse, Ming is tranferred to Internal Affairs and his first mission is to ferret out that mole in the police force…