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Title: Infernal Affairs
Cast: Andy Lau, Tony Leung, Anthony Wong, Eric Tsang, Kelly Chen
Director: Andy Lau, Alan Mark

This is a classic Hong Kong drama, starring the well known actors Tony Leung and Andy Lau. The film starts off with the two characters in their teens, one is a gang member who is encouraged to infiltrate the police as an inside man, the other is in the police academy, who is given the assignment of penetrating the cities gangs by going deep undercover. Over the years the two have risen through the ranks, so that they have both reached points where they are doing the most good for their respective bosses. However, it has become clear as each pretends to serve the other’s boss that both sides have a double agent. Setting both sides up in a race to find the inside man on their team, so that they can catch the baddies, or so they can avoid being caught and continue to bring in drugs. The result builds tension as these two men get closer and closer to discovering each other, using all sorts of methods to communicate back and forward, and to try and discover their opposite number.