An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?
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Cast
36 people
Simon Yam
Cheung Chi-Wing
Known for
Ip Man
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life
Anita Yuen Wing-yee
Hung
Known for
Ip Man: The Final Fight
Thunderbolt
Joe Cheung Tung-Cho
Known for
In the Mood for Love
Infernal Affairs II
Shijie Huang
John Tang Yat-kwan
Kit
Known for
Once a Thief
Anita Yuen
Hung
Chi-Wai Sin
Benz Kong To-hoi
Known for
Fallen Angels
As Tears Go By
Tsz-Wai Lam
Derek Yee Tung-Sing
Principal Chun
Known for
Protégé
The Seventh Curse
Stephen Tung Wai
Known for
Hard Boiled
The Sniper
Yeuk-Kwong Yuen
Joe Cheung Tung-Cho Director · Chi-Wai Sin Writer Yeuk-Kwong Yuen Writer
First release October 29, 1994 · Produced in Hong Kong SAR China · Original title 暴雨驕陽
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Hong Kong SAR China
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Original title
暴雨驕陽
Original language
Cantonese
Spoken on screen
Cantonese
Release dates
Hong Kong SAR China · October 29, 1994
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No release date listed for United States.
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