The Prisoner

• Director: Chu Yen Ping
• Genre: Action
• Movie Type: Prison Film, Action Thriller
• Themes: Switching Sides, Going Undercover, Yakuza
• Main Cast: Jackie Chan, Sammo Hung, Tony Leung Kar-Fai
• Release Year: 1990
• Country: HK
• Run Time: 96 minutes

Plot

Chu Yen-ping directs this all-star cast prison flick about cop Huang Wei (Tony Leung Kar-fai) who goes into the clink undercover to figure out how the fingerprints of a long deceased death-row inmate ended up at the scene of a recent murder. There he quickly runs afoul of gangland powers, making his life a living hell. His fellow inmates include Lung (Jackie Chan) who killed a card sharp to pay for an operation for his girlfriend; Triad (Andy Lau Tak-wah) who looking for the guy who killed his brother in jail; and Lui (Sammo Hung Kam-po) a sadsack con who regularly breaks out to visit his son. Later, Huang kills a prison guard and is sentenced to death. He soon learns that the jail's crazed warden is using supposedly executed criminals to kill crime bosses who are beyond the law. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide

Cast

• Jackie Chan
• Tony Leung Kar-Fai
• Sammo Hung

Jimmy Wang Yu

Credit

Chu Yen Ping - Director, Jimmy Wang Yu - Producer

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