57: Stool Pigeon (2010)
58: Fire of Conscience (2010)Dante Lam must be quite a busy man. I like all these low-budget gritty HK cop dramas. They are definitely in a world of their own. A somewhat revision of Italian Neorealism, with shaky handheld cameras, street shots and on-location lightings. But a starking difference would be the appearance of big names on a small budget that surely puts Hollywood's outrageous monies to shame.
The success of Infernal Affairs and Johnnie To finding a world cinema audience may have put the spotlight back into cop/gangster dramas in the last couple of years though on a whole still lack the hardboiled romanticism of the 90s.
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