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Drug War is a 2012 action thriller film directed and produced by Johnnie To. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Sun Honglei as Police Captain Zhang, who partners with a drug lord named Timmy Choi after Choi is arrested. To avoid the death penalty, Choi agrees to reveal information about his partners' methamphetamine ring. Zhang starts to harbor doubts about Choi's honesty as the police begin to take…
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Johnnie To enjoys a reputation as one of the most successful and internationally renowned Hong Kong filmmakers of the 21st century. Much of this esteem is owed to his skilful handling of the gangster genre, for which Hong Kong cinema was best known in past decades. With his 2012 film *Drug War*, however, he ventured slightly outside those well‑worn genre parameters, weaving together elements of police procedural, ac…More
