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User Rating:
5.6/10   260 votes
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Director:
Pou-Soi Cheang
Writers:
Izô Hashimoto (screenplay) &
Kam-Yuen Szeto (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
6 March 2008 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Action
Plot:
After serving time for the murder of his parents, a fighter with a taste for violence enters the world of kickboxing. full summary | add synopsis
NewsDesk:
(8 articles)
Accident (Louis Koo, Richie Ren) Hong Kong Movie Review
 (From AsianMoviePulse. 14 November 2009, 5:31 PM, PST)
Soi Cheang’s Accident on English subbed DVD
 (From 24FramesPerSecond. 3 November 2009, 1:07 AM, PST)
User Comments:
Great movie, but not for everyone more (3 total)

Cast

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Shawn Yue ... Ryo Narushima
Annie Liu ... Megumi
Francis Ng ... Kenji Kurokawa
Masato ... Sugawara Naoto
Dylan Kuo ... Ryuichi Yamazaki
Siu-Lung Leung ... Kensuke Mochizuki (as Bruce Leung)

Ryo Ishibashi ... Principal Saeki
Weiying Pei ... Natsumi Narushima (as Pei Pei)
Terri Kwan ... Moemi Funato
Hiromi Nakajima ... Yoko Kamio
Takuya Suzuki ... Kawakami
Ka Sing Chau ... Kouhei Fujiyoshi (as Chau Ka Sing)
Syria Leung ... The Rich Madam
Agnes Pang ... Manageress
Apple Chau ... Floor Show Dancer
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Jun chi (China: Mandarin title) (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Gwan gaai (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)
Shamo (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Hong Kong:105 min
Country:
Hong Kong | Japan
Language:
Cantonese | English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Hong Kong:IIB | South Korea:18
Filming Locations:
Chiang Mai, Thailand more
Company:
Art Port more

Fun Stuff

Soundtrack:
METALLY (Flying Swamp Mix) more

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User Comments

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3 out of 6 people found the following comment useful.
Great movie, but not for everyone, 10 October 2008
9/10
Author: 8thSin from Tokyo

It seem a lot of people hated this movie, but I for one really liked it.

Shawn Yue and Francis Ng are my favorite HK actors, and the Infernal Affairs pair did a really fine job IMO. I really connected with the characters, and I thought they were perfect casting for those characters (though I have not read the manga, as usual) It is true there were some cheesy manga scenes here and there, but I loved how the movie was directed, and there were many cool fight and slow-mo scenes. The artistic element in this movie worked very well for me.

There were a lot of random violence, but the movie was about the pain the protagonist had to suffer through, and I thought it was a fine movie.

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