Century of the Dragon

Century of the Dragon

Film poster
Traditional 龍在邊緣
Simplified 龙在边缘
Mandarin Lóng Zài Biān Yuán
Cantonese Lung4 Zoi6 Bin1 Jyun4
Directed by Clarence Fok
Produced by Wong Jing
Screenplay by Wong Jing
Starring Andy Lau
Louis Koo
Patrick Tam
Suki Kwan
Anthony Wong
Joey Meng
Music by Sammy Ha
Wai Hin Kwan
Cinematography Edmond Fung
Edited by Marco Mak
Production
company
Jing's Production
Distributed by China Star Entertainment
Release dates
 15 October 1999
Running time
 109 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office HK$8,313,482

Century of the Dragon is a 1999 Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Clarence Fok and starring Andy Lau, Louis Koo and Patrick Tam.

Plot

When Wong Chi Sing (Louis Koo) was training in the police academy, he achieved prominent grades which prompts Superintendent Ko (Joe Lee) to send him undercover before his graduation. After five years, Sing finally gains the trust of Hung Hing Gang's most prominent leader Lung Yat Fei, known as Fei Lung Gor (Andy Lau). One time, Fei Lung's sworn brother Tong Pau (Anthony Wong) was fighting for territories with another tiad boss Loan Shark Ko (Lee Ka Ting), which happened on the day of Fei Lung's mother's (Paw Hee-ching) birthday party. Unknown to Pau, the police have planted undercover cop Big Head Man (Eric Wan) in his gang for many years. On that night, Pau was arrested and hospitalized due to heavy injuries.

Since Pau is seriously injured, the Hung Hing Gang forces Fei Lung, who has been dealing with legal business for the past five years, back to the underworld, to which Fei Lung refuses. Pau's son Man Chun (Patrick Tam), a ruthless man, takes the opportunity for vengeance and makes a deal with the elders that whoever is able to find the mole and kill Superintendent Ko and Loan Shark Ko, will get the opportunity to be the new leader. When Sing hears this he decides to immediately inform Big Head Man. Since Man lost his pager, Sing was unable to call him and tries to find Man in his son's school. When Sing makes it there, Man has left with his son and while trying to find him everywhere, he finds Man and his son killed by Chun and his henchmen.

Chun is actually desperate to take his father's position as Hung Hing's leader and pretends to feel sad for his father and tells Sing to kill Superintendent Ko, which Sing neglects. Fei Lung does not want to deal with the underworld and tells Sing to beware of moles around him, which makes Sing feel guilty. Chun calls Sing to negotiate with Loan Shark Man, while on the other hand orders his henchmen to sweep Ko's business and rape his wife and daughter. While Ko was negotiating with Sing, he finds out that his business were all swept and his wife and daughter raped and decides to kill Sing before he was rescued by Fei Lung, which makes Ko believe that Fei Lung is behind all this and decides to take revenge on him. Later, Superintendent Ko tells Sing to immediately assist in arresting Fei Lung, but Sing explains to Ko that Chun is the mastermind behind this and persuades him to arrest Chun instead, which leads Ko to misunderstand that Sing has renegaded and detains him.

When Sing's girlfriend Judy (Joey Meng) learns that Chun sent his top henchmen Ma Wong (Frankie Ng) and Fa Fot (Lung Fong) to kidnap Fei Lung's wife Daisy (Suki Kwan), Judy immediately informs Daisy; while on the other hand, Loan Shark Ko has captured Lung's mother to threaten Lung to surrender and Chun unexpectedly arrives and kills Ko while trapping Lung, his mother and son in a farm. When Superintendent Ko finds Loan Shark Ko dead in Lung's house, he lists Lung as a wanted criminal.

When Sing rescues Daisy, he learns that Chun has captured Fei Lung and his family and goes to find Chun in his company. While also with the help of Sing, Daisy was able to avoid being rapped by Chun and holds him hostage to the farm to rescue Fei Lung, his mother and son. However, after rescuing Fei Lung where a big gunfight occurs, Daisy was killed by Chun in the process.

In the end, Fei Lung decides to take revenge. When Sing learns of this, he immediately rushes to stop him from this mistake. There, Fei Lung uses Sing's gun to resolve Chun. Sing shoots Chun for self-defense where Chun also falls off the building and dies.

Cast

Box office

The film grossed HK$8,313,482 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 15 October to 4 November 1999 in Hong Kong.

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