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Infernal Affairs is a 2002 Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak from a screenplay written by Mak and Felix Chong. The film stars Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, and Eric Tsang. The film follows an undercover Hong Kong Police Force officer who infiltrates a triad and another police officer who is secretly a spy for the same triad. The film is the first in the Infernal Affairs series,…
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The 2002 Hong Kong crime thriller *Infernal Affairs* is perhaps best known to Western audiences as the basis for Martin Scorsese’s 2006 Hollywood remake *The Departed*, the film that finally brought the esteemed director his long-sought Oscar. Yet, for aficionados of the genre, the original is not only, for obvious reasons, more original but also, for not so obvious reasons, a slightly superior film—tighter, faster,…More
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At the dawn of the 21st Century, the East Asian cinema industries were thriving. Japanese horror films had supplanted French comedies as a wellspring for Hollywood remakes. South Korean cinema had successfully penetrated non-Korean theatres and video stores. Each new martial arts film by Zhang Yimou was eagerly awaited by cinephiles worldwide. Conversely, the Hong Kong cinema industry, once the sole East Asian cinem…More
Source A few days ago I started to watch the Infernal Affairs trilogy which I only discovered because it is the original story of the well-known American film The Departed. The story of the first film in the trilogy is therefore very popular, it is about 2 moles. One police officer infiltrated the mafia, and 1 mobster infiltrated the police department. The second part of this trilogy is not a sequel but actually a p…More
Source This movie, in the same way as the Japanese film called "Ringu", is one I decided to watch because I enjoyed its American remake so much that I needed to see the original. In the case of Ringu, the American remake is obviously The Ring, and in the case of Infernal Affairs, the American remake is The Departed, a well-known film from 2006. The story is about 2 different infiltrations, one member of the mafia in…More