Main Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Tony Leung Kar-Fai, Roy Cheung
Release Year: 1987
Country: HK/CN
Run Time: 98 minutes
Plot
Ringo Lam delivers this two-fisted gritty thriller written by his brother Nam Yin. Timid Lo Ka-yiu (Tony Leung Kar-fai) is thrown in the clink for a three-year stint after being convicted of manslaughter. Possessing none of the requisite instincts to survive in a maximum-security prison, Lo looks like he's going to be easy prey. Yet before you can say, "You dropped the soap," he befriends Chung (Chow Yun-fat) a charismatic con who has charmed every prison guard except security chief Hung (Roy Cheung), a psychotic whose brutalized visage inspired the moniker "Scarface." When Lo snitches on crime boss Micky, the don conspires with Scarface to rub out weedy stool pigeon. When Chung stands up for Lo and tells the warden of Scarface's nefarious acts, Micky gets transferred to another prison and Hung vows revenge. Later, Micky and Scarface frame Chung for a prison protest. Pushed to his psychological limits after days of torture, Chung soon is out for blood. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
An explosive crime-drama that caused a sensation upon its release. Despite the bloodshed and violence, audiences were deeply moved by the fraternal bond between the two leading characters. Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung Ka-Fai are riveting as the inmates who get involved with the intricacies of the prison system. The film co-stars Roy Cheung as a prison guard.
Plot
The plot mostly involves the two main characters, Ching and Yiu and problems they face with Mickey, a fellow inmate and "Assassin", a prison guard. Yiu is sentenced to three years for manslaughter. In a fight for his father, he pushed a man and was run over by a bus.
Ching was sent to prison for killing his wife for being a prostitute.
During the end of the film, inmates decide to go on hunger strike to protest against the cigarette price rise, this causes problems with Assassin.
Ching bit Surface's ear off and gets an extended sentence, continued on Prison on Fire II, Yiu is released later on.
