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CrimeDramaThriller

Where the Wind Blows

- The most momentous but unacknowledged chapter in the past thirty years of Hong Kong's history

The decades spanning story of two very different policemen who rise to power in Hong Kong during British rule, and end up at odds with both organised crime groups and the anti-corruption unit vowing to bring them down.

Release Date : 2023-02-05

Language :Cantonese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Mei Ah EntertainmentDadi Film Group

Production Country : ChinaHong Kong

Alternative Titles : Theory of Ambitions

Cast

Aaron Kwok

Character Name : Lui Lok

Original Name : 郭富城

Gender : Male

Tony Leung

Character Name : Nam Kong

Original Name : 梁朝偉

Gender : Male

Du Juan

Character Name : Tsai Zhen

Original Name : Du Juan

Gender : Female

Patrick Tam

Character Name : Yim Hung

Original Name : 譚耀文

Gender : Male

Tse Kwan-Ho

Character Name : Limpy Ho

Original Name : 謝君豪

Gender : Male

Michael Chow Man-Kin

Character Name : Fat-Bee

Original Name : 周文健

Gender : Male

Chui Tien-You

Character Name : Young Lui Lok

Original Name : 徐天佑

Gender : Male

Lam Yiu-Sing

Character Name : Young Nam Kong

Original Name : 林耀聲

Gender : Male

Michael Ning

Character Name : Young Fat-Bee

Original Name : 白只

Gender : Male

Ron Ng Cheuk-Hai

Character Name : Kot Sui-Hung

Original Name : 吳卓羲

Gender : Male

Louis Cheung

Character Name :

Original Name : 張繼聰

Gender : Male

Stephen Ho

Character Name : Sai-Wing

Original Name : 何啟南

Gender : Male

Jessie Li

Character Name : Xiao Yue

Original Name : 春夏

Gender : Female

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Character Name : Lui Hang-Wah

Original Name : Elaine Jin

Gender : Female

Maggie Cheung Ho-Yee

Character Name : Limpy Ho's Wife

Original Name : 張可頤

Gender : Female

Zeng Yixuan

Character Name : Xiao Yan

Original Name : Zeng Yixuan

Gender : Female

Michael Hui Koon-Man

Character Name : George Lee

Original Name : 許冠文

Gender : Male

Jeana Ho Pui-Yu

Character Name : Cora

Original Name : 何佩瑜

Gender : Female

Tai Bo

Character Name : Nian

Original Name : 太保

Gender : Male

Eddie Chen

Character Name : Nam Kong's Father

Original Name : 艾迪

Gender : Male

Belinda Yan

Character Name :

Original Name : 顏子菲

Gender : Female

Richard Ng Yiu-Hon

Character Name : Tsai Lin

Original Name : 吳耀漢

Gender : Male

Lau Shun

Character Name :

Original Name : 刘洵

Gender : Male

Deon Cheung Chung-Chi

Character Name : Crazy Chuck

Original Name : 張松枝

Gender : Male

Dennis Chan Kwok-San

Character Name :

Original Name : Dennis Chan Kwok-San

Gender : Male

Vincent Wan Yeung-Ming

Character Name :

Original Name : 尹揚明

Gender : Male

Mark Cheung Lui

Character Name :

Original Name : Mark Cheung Lui

Gender : Male

Shigeo Kobayashi

Character Name : Tokai-san

Original Name : 小林成男

Gender : Male

Amen Au Cheuk-Man

Character Name :

Original Name : Amen Au Cheuk-Man

Gender : Male

Ben Yuen

Character Name :

Original Name : 袁富華

Gender : Male

Rose Chan Ka-Wun

Character Name :

Original Name : 陳嘉桓

Gender : Female

Paul Che Biu-Law

Character Name :

Original Name : 車保羅

Gender : Male

Pinky Cheung Man-Chi

Character Name :

Original Name : 張文慈

Gender : Female

Tsang Wai-Ming

Character Name :

Original Name : 曾偉明

Gender : Male

Kingman Cho

Character Name :

Original Name : 曹敬文

Gender : Male

Paco Wong Hing-Nam

Character Name :

Original Name : 王慶南

Gender : Male

Liao Dacheng

Character Name :

Original Name : 廖達成

Gender : Male

Ou Yangming

Character Name :

Original Name : 歐陽明

Gender : Male

Zhao Ben

Character Name :

Original Name : 赵奔

Gender : Male

Xia Yingchun

Character Name :

Original Name : 夏迎春

Gender : Male

Peng Cheng

Character Name :

Original Name : 彭誠

Gender : Male

Leung Kwan-Leun

Character Name :

Original Name : Leung Kwan-Leun

Gender : Male

Huo Baiqiang

Character Name :

Original Name : 霍柏強

Gender : Male

Chen Yaoxiang

Character Name :

Original Name : 陳耀祥

Gender : Male

Simon Watkiss

Character Name :

Original Name : Simon Watkiss

Gender : Male

Michael Anthony Aickin

Character Name :

Original Name : Michael Anthony Aickin

Gender : Male

David Wayne Fish

Character Name :

Original Name : David Wayne Fish

Gender : Male

Nicholas Fenton Langsford

Character Name :

Original Name : Nicholas Fenton Langsford

Gender : Male

Howard Paley

Character Name :

Original Name : Howard Paley

Gender : Male

Kevin Tracey Clyne

Character Name :

Original Name : Kevin Tracey Clyne

Gender : Male

Graeme John Still

Character Name :

Original Name : 司徒忠

Gender : Male

Mo Zonglong

Character Name : prisoner

Original Name : 莫宗龙

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2023-10-08

The premiss of this cop drama is quite promising. It depicts a scenario in which the dedication of the few honest officers amongst Hong Kong's colonial police have to combat both their own crooked comrades as well as the increasingly powerful Triad gangs that are gradually overrunning the place - to the extent that the British might have to send in their troops to restore law and order. What also complicates the story is that both "Nam Kong" (Tony Leung) and "Lui Lok" (Aaron Kwok) are aspirational policemen who are prepared to use whatever it takes to get on - and that, coupled with the equally ambitious attitudes of their wives, means that they are just as corrupt and devious as those they are purporting to be trying to control. The thing with this drama is it's pace. It takes far, far, too long to get going with way too little action or intrigue until well into the second hour, by which time I was starting to wriggle in my seat. There's an inevitability about the whole story thereafter and Philip Yung just doesn't manage to create characters about whom I could care less. The whole honour code/triad criminality plot is largely neglected in favour of an half-hearted, semi-westernised, crime thriller that really is distinctly lacking in thrills and that is just too long. It meandered and rambled too much for me with much to much dialogue and nowhere near enough focus on what could have been a really good hybrid-culture, political, adventure. It's OK, watchable, but really nothing more.