Where the Wind Blows (2023)
The most momentous but unacknowledged chapter in the past thirty years of Hong Kong's history
Director: Philip Yung Chi-kwong · Writers: Philip Yung Chi-kwong, Effy Sun
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.
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Director
Philip Yung Chi-kwong
Cast
Aaron Kwok Fu-shing
Lui Lok 
Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Nam Kong 
Du Juan
Tsai Zhen 
Patrick Tam Yiu-man
Yim Hung 
Gardner Tse Kwan-ho
Limpy Ho 
Michael Chow Man-kin
Fat-Bee 
Chui Tien-you
Young Lui Lok 
Lam Yiu-sing
Young Nam Kong 
Michael Ning
Young Fat-Bee 
Ron Ng Cheuk-hai
Kot Sui-Hung 
Louis Cheung
Stephen Ho Kai-Nam
Sai-Wing User Reviews (1)
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 whic…
