Additional information for Infernal Affairs (Mou gaan dou), which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 12, 2002. The film is being distributed by Miramax Films and has not yet been rated. The film's total running time is still unknown.
PG-12
Taiwan
16
Iceland
U
Malaysia
12
South Korea
18
Brazil
M
Australia
PG
Canada
K-15
Finland
-12
France
12
Germany
IIB
Hong Kong
15
Ireland
PG-12
Japan
16
Netherlands
PG
Singapore
13
Spain
15
Sweden
15
UK
R
USA
13
Argentina
December 12, 2002
Hong Kong
December 13, 2002
Taiwan
February 21, 2003
South Korea
March 15, 2003
France
April 24, 2003
Italy
August 12, 2003
Philippines
September 18, 2003
Greece
October 10, 2003
Finland
October 11, 2003
Japan
October 16, 2003
Ireland
October 16, 2003
Norway
January 1, 2004
Australia
January 29, 2004
Hungary
February 12, 2004
Sweden
February 20, 2004
Romania
February 27, 2004
UK
March 29, 2004
Denmark
April 10, 2004
France
May 21, 2004
Estonia
June 25, 2004
Denmark
August 12, 2004
Germany
August 25, 2004
Norway
September 1, 2004
France
September 2, 2004
Germany
September 9, 2004
Netherlands
September 20, 2004
Finland
September 24, 2004
USA
October 26, 2004
USA
December 8, 2004
Belgium
March 11, 2005
Argentina
June 8, 2005
Argentina
July 6, 2005
Spain
August 18, 2005
Iceland
November 4, 2005
Poland
Loyalty. Honor. Betrayal.
Infernal Affairs focuses on a police officer named Chen Wing-Yan (Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), who goes deep undercover into the Triad society, and Triad member Lau Kin-Ming (Andy Lau Tak-Wah), who infiltrates the police department. Each mole was planted by the rival organization to gain an advantage in intelligence over the other side. The more the moles become involved in their undercover lives, the more issues they have to cope with.
The Prologue opens with the introduction of Hon Sam (Eric Tsang Chi-Wai), a Triad boss and the primary antagonist of the film. Sam is sending a number of young, green gangsters to the police academy as molesamongst them is one called Lau Kin-Ming (whose younger version is portrayed by Edison Chen Koon-Hei). At the same time another person named Chen Wing-Yan (whose younger version is portrayed by Shawn Yue Man-Lok) is shown joining the police force. Although he manages to impress the Superintendent Wong Chi-Shing (Anthony Wong Chau-Sang) and the police academy principal Yip, Yan is expelled from the academy. In reality Yan becomes an undercover reporting directly to only Wong and Yip. Yan's undercover job becomes stressful while Ming quickly climbs the ladder in the police department.
The film begins after Yan and Ming converse at a hi-fi store where Yan works, neither of them knowing who the other is. Soon after, Yan attends a funeral. It is revealed that Yip has recently died and that Superintendent Wong remains as the only person who could identify Yan as a cop. Later a deal between Hon Sam and a Thai cocaine dealer is interrupted by Superintendent Wong and his team due to Yan's tip-off using Morse Code. However, Ming alerted Sam of the bust with enough time for Sam to order his minions Tsui Wai-Keung (Chapman To Man-Chat) and Del Piero (Dion Lam Dik-On) to dispose of the cocaine so the police would not have any real evidence on the drug deal. Now, both Wong and Sam realize that they each have a mole within their respective organizations, putting them in a race against time to root out the other mole.
Later, Sam converses with Ming at a cinema with Yan watching. As Sam and Ming leave, Yan tries to follow Ming. At the crucial moment, Yan's phone rings and he is forced to back off, thus losing his chance to capture Ming.
At the same time, Yan and Ming are both struggling with their double identities. Yan is starting to lose faith in himself as a cop after being a gangster for ten years; while Ming, on the other hand, becomes more and more used to the life of a righteous police officer and wants to erase his criminal background.
Yan meets SP Wong a second time on the same rooftop unaware that Ming has his subordinate, CIB Inspector B (Gordon Lam Ka-Tung) and his team tracking him down. Sam, after getting intel from Ming, sends Keung, Del Piero and a gang of henchmen to confront them. Inspector B informs Ming and he sends an OCTB squad to attempt to save Wong. Yan eventually escapes the building by taking the crane but Wong is caught by Del Piero and is thrown off the roof. As Yan is about to escape, he witnesses Wong's fall to death, and is stunned. As the police close in, a shootout between the police and Triads breaks out, resulting in the death of 3 Triads, one of whom is Del Piero. In the aftermath of the gunfight, the OCTB squad arrives with Ming and Wong's second-in-command Inspector Cheung (Berg Ng Ting-Yip) on the scene, but they are too late to save Wong. Yan and Keung manage to escape from the gunfight. As Keung drives away with Yan, he crashes the car, and finding that he is wounded from the gun battle, Keung dies in Yan's arms.
Eventually, Ming retrieves Wong's old cellphone and makes contact with Yan. They reach a deal to foil another one of Sam's drug deals. Inspector Cheung does not want to cooperate with the operation at first because of Wong's death, but he is later convinced by Ming to go ahead with the operation. With Yan's help, Sam's drug deal is interrupted and Sam is killed by Ming. Many of Sam's other gangsters are arrested. Everything seems to work according to the plan: Yan could now return to his true identity as a police officer and Ming has successfully erased his criminal connections by eradicating Sam and his gangs. However, back at the police station, Yan discovers Ming was the mole, and leaves immediately. Ming realizes what has happened, and erases Yan's identity from the police computer records. Yan spends an evening with his therapist Lee (Kelly Chen), whom he was falling in love with, and sends a compact disc to Ming which is inadvertently intercepted by his wife Mary (Sammi Cheng Sau-Man) with a recording that Sam kept between himself and Ming. The two agree to meet on the rooftop of the building where Wong was murdered earlier. Yan disarms Ming without resistance. Yan holds a gun to Ming's head as rebuke and as reply to Ming's plea for forgiveness to remain a policeman. Inspector B arrives on the scene shortly afterwards and commands Yan to release his boss.
The film ends with Yan entering a lift backwards with Ming hostage, when he is suddenly shot in the head and killed by Inspector B as he moved his head from behind Ming. Inspector B reveals that he was also a mole for Sam. He asks Ming to watch out for him, since their boss is already dead. As he and Ming enter the lift going down to the lobby, Ming shoots Inspector B dead, likely out of his desire to eradicate traces of his past and become a "good guy" police officer.
The original ending climaxes with Ming identifying himself to the police as an officer, and paying homage to Yan at his funeral, where he is buried next to Superintendent Wong. Inspector Cheung and Dr Lee are present as well. A flashback reaffirms the point that Ming wished he had taken a different route in his life.
Alternate Ending
The alternate ending has Ming exit the lift to be informed by Inspector Cheung that the police force have found evidence that he was a mole. He hands them his badge and is arrested without protest.
Wai-keung Lau
Alan Mak
Director(s)
Alan Mak
Felix Chong
Writer(s)
Ellen Chang
line producer
Elos Gallo
consulting producer
Lorraine Ho
line producer
Wai-keung Lau
producer (as Andrew Lau)
Producer(s)
Kwong Wing Chan
Composer(s)
Inspector Lau Kin Ming
Andy Lau
Chen Wing Yan (as Tony Leung)
Tony Leung Chiu Wai
SP Wong Chi Shing (as Anthony Wong)
Anthony Wong Chau-Sang
Hon Sam
Eric Tsang
Dr. Lee Sum Yee
Kelly Chen
Mary
Sammi Cheng
Young Lau Kin Ming
Edison Chen
Young Chan Wing Yan
Shawn Yue
May
Elva Hsiao
Tsui Wai-keung
Chapman To
Inspector B (as Lam Ka Tung)
Ka Tung Lam
Inspector Cheung (as Ng Ting Yip)
Ting Yip Ng
Del Piero
Dion Lam
Officer Leung (as Wan Chi Keung)
Chi Keung Wan
Cadet School Principal
Hui Kam Fung
Suspect
Tony Ho
Stereo Shop Owner
Courtney Wu
Elephant
Au Hin Wai
Double 8
Li Tin Cheung
CIB Team
Wong Yin Keung
CIB Team
Lam Po Loy
CIB Team
Cheng Wing Yee
CIB Team
Yiu Man Kee
CIB Team (as Yuen Wai Ho)
Yuen Waj Ho
CIB Team
Mak Wai Kwok
CIB Team
Kui Mei Yee
CIB Team (as Wong Chi Wang)
Wong Ch Wang
Sam´s Follower
Lee Yip Kin
Sam's Follower (as Ho Chung Wai)
Chung Wai Ho
Sam's Follower (as Yu Sai Tang)
Sai Tang Yu
Sam´s Follower
Wong Kam Hung
Sam´s Follower
So Wai Nam
Sam´s Follower
Lai Chi Wai
Sam´s Follower
Leung Ho Kei
Sam´s Follower
Tze Ming Lee
Officer Chan
Hui On Tat
Superintendent
Ho Wing Ling
Chief Inspector
Lee Wah Chu
Cadet School Instructor
Cheung Yuk Sun
May´s Daughter
Leung Chiu Yi
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Infernal Affairs
International: English title
Mou gaan dou
Hong Kong: Cantonese title
Non-Stop Way
Hong Kong: English title
Wu jian dao
Hong Kong: Mandarin title
Affaires internes
Canada: French title
Asuntos infernales
Argentina
Conflitos Internos
Brazil
Infernal Affairs
Germany
Infernal Affairs
Finland
Infernal Affairs
France
Infernal Affairs
Italy
Infernal Affairs - Die achte Hölle
Germany
Juego sucio
Spain
Mugendô
Japan
O anthropos tou nomou
Greece
Põrgulik amet
Estonia
Satanikes ypotheseis
Greece
A story between a mole in the police department and an undercover cop. Their objectives are the same: to find out who is the mole, and who is the cop.
The Prologue opens with the introduction of Hon Sam (Eric Tsang Chi-Wai), a Triad boss and the primary antagonist of the film. Sam is sending a number of young, green gangsters to the police academy as molesamongst them is one called Lau Kin-Ming (whose younger version is portrayed by Edison Chen Koon-Hei). At the same time another person named Chen Wing-Yan (whose younger version is portrayed by Shawn Yue Man-Lok) is shown joining the police force. Although he manages to impress the Superintendent Wong Chi-Shing (Anthony Wong Chau-Sang) and the police academy principal Yip, Yan is expelled from the academy. In reality Yan becomes an undercover reporting directly to only Wong and Yip. Yan's undercover job becomes stressful while Ming quickly climbs the ladder in the police department.
The film begins after Yan and Ming converse at a hi-fi store where Yan works, neither of them knowing who the other is. Soon after, Yan attends a funeral. It is revealed that Yip has recently died and that Superintendent Wong remains as the only person who could identify Yan as a cop. Later a deal between Hon Sam and a Thai cocaine dealer is interrupted by Superintendent Wong and his team due to Yan's tip-off using Morse Code. However, Ming alerted Sam of the bust with enough time for Sam to order his minions Tsui Wai-Keung (Chapman To Man-Chat) and Del Piero (Dion Lam Dik-On) to dispose of the cocaine so the police would not have any real evidence on the drug deal. Now, both Wong and Sam realize that they each have a mole within their respective organizations, putting them in a race against time to root out the other mole.
Later, Sam converses with Ming at a cinema with Yan watching. As Sam and Ming leave, Yan tries to follow Ming. At the crucial moment, Yan's phone rings and he is forced to back off, thus losing his chance to capture Ming.
At the same time, Yan and Ming are both struggling with their double identities. Yan is starting to lose faith in himself as a cop after being a gangster for ten years; while Ming, on the other hand, becomes more and more used to the life of a righteous police officer and wants to erase his criminal background.
Yan meets SP Wong a second time on the same rooftop unaware that Ming has his subordinate, CIB Inspector B (Gordon Lam Ka-Tung) and his team tracking him down. Sam, after getting intel from Ming, sends Keung, Del Piero and a gang of henchmen to confront them. Inspector B informs Ming and he sends an OCTB squad to attempt to save Wong. Yan eventually escapes the building by taking the crane but Wong is caught by Del Piero and is thrown off the roof. As Yan is about to escape, he witnesses Wong's fall to death, and is stunned. As the police close in, a shootout between the police and Triads breaks out, resulting in the death of 3 Triads, one of whom is Del Piero. In the aftermath of the gunfight, the OCTB squad arrives with Ming and Wong's second-in-command Inspector Cheung (Berg Ng Ting-Yip) on the scene, but they are too late to save Wong. Yan and Keung manage to escape from the gunfight. As Keung drives away with Yan, he crashes the car, and finding that he is wounded from the gun battle, Keung dies in Yan's arms.
Eventually, Ming retrieves Wong's old cellphone and makes contact with Yan. They reach a deal to foil another one of Sam's drug deals. Inspector Cheung does not want to cooperate with the operation at first because of Wong's death, but he is later convinced by Ming to go ahead with the operation. With Yan's help, Sam's drug deal is interrupted and Sam is killed by Ming. Many of Sam's other gangsters are arrested. Everything seems to work according to the plan: Yan could now return to his true identity as a police officer and Ming has successfully erased his criminal connections by eradicating Sam and his gangs. However, back at the police station, Yan discovers Ming was the mole, and leaves immediately. Ming realizes what has happened, and erases Yan's identity from the police computer records. Yan spends an evening with his therapist Lee (Kelly Chen), whom he was falling in love with, and sends a compact disc to Ming which is inadvertently intercepted by his wife Mary (Sammi Cheng Sau-Man) with a recording that Sam kept between himself and Ming. The two agree to meet on the rooftop of the building where Wong was murdered earlier. Yan disarms Ming without resistance. Yan holds a gun to Ming's head as rebuke and as reply to Ming's plea for forgiveness to remain a policeman. Inspector B arrives on the scene shortly afterwards and commands Yan to release his boss.
The film ends with Yan entering a lift backwards with Ming hostage, when he is suddenly shot in the head and killed by Inspector B as he moved his head from behind Ming. Inspector B reveals that he was also a mole for Sam. He asks Ming to watch out for him, since their boss is already dead. As he and Ming enter the lift going down to the lobby, Ming shoots Inspector B dead, likely out of his desire to eradicate traces of his past and become a "good guy" police officer.
The original ending climaxes with Ming identifying himself to the police as an officer, and paying homage to Yan at his funeral, where he is buried next to Superintendent Wong. Inspector Cheung and Dr Lee are present as well. A flashback reaffirms the point that Ming wished he had taken a different route in his life.
Alternate Ending
The alternate ending has Ming exit the lift to be informed by Inspector Cheung that the police force have found evidence that he was a mole. He hands them his badge and is arrested without protest.
Alan Mak
Director(s)
Felix Chong
Writer(s)
line producer
Elos Gallo
consulting producer
Lorraine Ho
line producer
Wai-keung Lau
producer (as Andrew Lau)
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
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