Throw Down (film)

Throw Down

Directed by	Johnnie To
Produced by	Stephen Lam Johnnie To
Written by	Yau Nai-hoi Au Kin-yee Yip Tin-shing
Starring	Louis Koo Aaron Kwok Tony Leung Cherrie Ying
Music by	Peter Kam
Cinematography	Cheng Siu-Keung To Hung-mo
Edited by	David Richardson
Production company	One Hundred Years of Film Sil-Metropole Organisation Milkyway Image
Distributed by	China Star Entertainment Group
Release dates	15 July 2004 (2004-07-15)
Running time	95 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	US$1.05 million (HK)^[1]

Throw Down (simplified Chinese: 柔道龙虎榜; traditional Chinese: 柔道龍虎榜) is a 2004 Hong Kong martial arts film directed by Johnnie To and starring Louis Koo, Aaron Kwok, Tony Leung Ka-fai and Cherrie Ying. Director To dedicated the film, one of his most personal films to date, to the late Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. (cf Sanshiro Sugata) It premiered at the 61st Venice International Film Festival.^[2]

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↑ http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/intl/?page=&wk=2004W28&id=_fYAUDOHLUNGFUBONG01
↑ Michael Ingham Johnnie To Kei-Fung's PTU 2009 - - Page 68 "Like To's follow-up film Throw Down, PTU has a strongly pictorial quality, which reveals the director's acute sense of ... Both films on the large screen were coincidentally beautiful to look at, but of course one's expectations of a Hong Kong film"

Films directed by Johnnie To

Films	Happy Ghost III (1986) The Eighth Happiness (1988) All About Ah-Long (1989) The Fun, the Luck & the Tycoon (1990) Casino Raiders II (1991) Justice, My Foot! (1992) The Bare-Footed Kid (1993) The Heroic Trio (1993) The Mad Monk (1993) A Moment of Romance III (1996) A Hero Never Dies (1998) Running Out of Time (1999) The Mission (1999) PTU (2003) Breaking News (2004) Throw Down (2004) Yesterday Once More (2004) Election (2005) Election 2 (2006) Exiled (2006) Linger (2008) Sparrow (2008) Vengeance (2009) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Life Without Principle (2011) Drug War (2012) Blind Detective (2013) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014) Three (2016)

Films with Wai Ka-Fai	Needing You... (2000) Wu yen (2001) Love on a Diet (2001) Fulltime Killer (2001) Fat Choi Spirit (2002) My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Running on Karma (2003) Mad Detective (2007)

Co-director	The Big Heat (1988) The Royal Scoundrel (1991) Executioners (1993) Running Out of Time 2 (2001) Triangle (2007)

See also	Milkyway Image Filmography Awards and honors Tactical Unit series

Milkyway Image

Films	Final Justice (1996) Intruder (1997) The Longest Nite (1998) Expect the Unexpected (1998) A Hero Never Dies (1998) Running Out of Time (1999) The Mission (1999) Needing You... (2000) Wu yen (2001) Love on a Diet (2001) Fulltime Killer (2001) Running Out of Time 2 (2001) Second Time Around (2001) Fat Choi Spirit (2002) My Left Eye Sees Ghosts (2002) Love For All Seasons (2003) PTU (2003) Turn Left, Turn Right (2003) Running on Karma (2003) Breaking News (2004) Throw Down (2004) Yesterday Once More (2004) Election (2005) 2 Become 1 (2006) Election 2 (2006) Exiled (2006) Eye in the Sky (2007) Triangle (2007) Hooked on You (2007) Mad Detective (2007) Linger (2008) Sparrow (2008) Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms (2009) Accident (2009) Vengeance (2009) Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) Punished (2011) Life Without Principle (2011) Drug War (2012) Blind Detective (2013) A Complicated Story (2014) Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 (2014)

Filmmakers	Johnnie To Wai Ka-Fai Law Wing-cheung Patrick Yau Matt Chow Cheang Pou-Soi Lawrence Ah Mon Ringo Lam Tsui Hark Jeffrey Lau

Screenwriters	Yau Nai-Hoi Au Kin-Yee Yip Tin-Shing Szeto Kam-Yuen Ivy Ho

Crew	Dennis Law Cheng Siu-Keung Martin Chappell May Mok Patrick Tam Lai Yiu-fai

See also	Tactical Unit series