City on Fire (1987) Lung foo fung wan | Region-Free (Blu-Ray)

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Title: City on Fire (1987)

Alternate Title: Lung foo fung wan

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Plot Synopsis:
An undercover cop, Ko Chow, is tasked with infiltrating a gang of jewel thieves. As he becomes entangled in their world, he grapples with moral dilemmas and the blurred lines between duty and loyalty. The film delves into themes of trust, betrayal, and the personal costs of undercover work.

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Cast and Crew:

• Director: Ringo Lam
• Writer: Tommy Sham
• Cast:
  • Chow Yun-Fat as Ko Chow
  • Danny Lee as Inspector John Chan
  • Sun Yueh as Inspector Lau
  • Carrie Ng as Hung
  • Roy Cheung as Fu

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YouTube Trailer:
City on Fire | Trailer

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IMDb Link:
City on Fire (1987)

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Reviews from Letterboxd:

1. Ian West – ★★★★½
   “1980’s Neon Hong Kong perfectly punctuated by a saxophone soundscape, intoxicating exploration of bloodshed brotherhood, and Chow Yun Fat completely captivating the screen like few others in crime have, City on Fire is brimming with style, and was one of the very first Hong Kong films I ever saw. In fact, I’d like to give that bootleg VHS street vender in NYC Chinatown circa 1997 a shoutout for hard selling me on this and in the process allowing me to open up a Lemarchand’s box of hellishly captivating crime films for me to feast on.”
2. Filipe Furtado – ★★★½
   “A Langian knot. Lam is the most tactile director of his generation: his gunfights inflict horrifying physical consequences, not elegant ballets of bullets and bodies but brutal, bloody, and clumsy. The film is a descent into hell, a world where the only possible escape is through violence.”
3. Brmanuk – ★★★★★
   “After seeing Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (which I loved) I wanted to see something similar. A friend informed me of a Hong Kong movie made in 1987 (5 years before Res Dogs) that was supposedly the basis for QT’s directing debut. The film was called ‘City On Fire’. Well, one year later (the other day) I got my hands on it. The film involves (yeah you probably know by now but what the hell..) a cop named Ko Chow (Chow Yun-Fat) who goes undercover to try and infiltrate a gang of robbers. He supplies them with handguns and is eventually asked to join the gang and rob a jewellery store. The story is a lot more complicated than Reservoir Dogs as there are multiple things going on in Ko Chow’s life, unlike in Mr. Orange’s life in Res Dogs.”

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Meta Description:
“City on Fire” (1987), directed by Ringo Lam, is a Hong Kong action thriller featuring Chow Yun-Fat as an undercover cop infiltrating a gang of jewel thieves, exploring themes of loyalty and betrayal.