The best Kara Hui’s crime movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kara Hui’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kara Hui.
Infernal Affairs II
7.3/10
In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
The Criminals, Part 5: The Teenager's Nightmare
6.5/10
Shaw Brothers Exploitation Flick, 5th installment in "The Criminals" series.
Burning Ambition
6.6/10
This is director/martial arts star Frankie Chan's unofficial remake of the Kinji Fukasaku film SHOGUN'S SAMURAI (1978). Instead of Japanese samurai in a period setting, we get modern day Chinese gangsters battling each other for the position left vacant after the mysterious death of their head honcho.
Madam City Hunter
5.4/10
A young lady and her father are threatened by a gang named the Five Fingers. Private eye Charlie comes to the rescue.
Jiang Hu
6.2/10
When Triad leader Hung's wife gives birth to a baby boy, Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters. Despite the fact that he is not sure of his decision, word gets out fast and now, a brutal war begins in the world of "jiang-hu". Two hoodlums, Wing and Turbo, set to make a name for themselves, are ordered to kill Hung. Meanwhile, an internal conflict begins between Hung and his #1 man, Left-Hand. Despite this conflict, the two have nothing but respect for each other. However, they know deep down, that there are people waiting to get rid of Hung.
Turning Point 2
5.5/10
Laughing is judged guilty of murdering gang lord Michael So and is sentenced to life imprisonment. Locked up behind bars, he meets the seemingly benign inmate Fok Tin Yam, a university professor in criminal psychology who is jailed for drug possession. Highly intelligent and manipulative, Fok reveals the power of his mind games by effortlessly subduing the violent prison bully. He also deduces that Laughing is sent to the prison on an undercover mission to find out the rogue cops within the police force. The clues lead him to inmate Chit, a former sergeant from the Narcotics Bureau who has been suffering from a mental disorder. To unlock the critical information from the deranged man, Laughing must get the help of Fok, but this enigmatic figure has an agenda of his own...
Angel Terminators
6.2/10
Two Hong Kong policewomen (Ida and Hon) take on a Japanese boss who has returned from a seven-year exile to retake his old turf.
Infernal Affairs Trilogy (Chronological Edition)
Sons of the Neon Night
A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.
The Dragon Family
6/10
Rival Triad gangs go to war...
They Came to Rob Hong Kong
5.7/10
A bungling gang of criminal mercenaries arrives from the Chinese mainland on a mission for a mysterious evil mastermind, only to discover that their shady new employer has set them all up for a fall.
Bullet to Survive
A Hong Kong crime film from 1990 directed by Wilson Cheung Wing-Wa .
Crazy Mission
A group of young undercover cops, who get in a little too deep, become hunted by the police themselves. Superb action: from Dick Wei and Kara Hui.
Who Cares
5/10
Tough female cops tussle with Hong Kong Triad societies and also a recently resurrected hopping vampire. Chaos reigns.
Visa to Hell
6.2/10
Cop & robber story with a twist. A cop is trying to nail a bad guy (played by Dick Wei). This pisses the bad guy enough that he goes to the cop's house and kills both his wife and his daughter. When the cop gets there, he catches Dick Wei on his way out and ends up cornering him. Dick, who doesn't want to give the cop the satisfaction, jumps to his death. But the cop follows him into hell to make him pay.
Tattoo Girl
A woman with a butterfly mask starts to win huge at gambling and ends up having to defend herself from those looking for revenge.
