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Cast: Ekin Cheng, Jordan Chan, Gigi Lai, Francis Ng Chun-Yu, Ng Chi-Hung, Simon Yam Tat-Wah, Michael Tse Tin-Wah, Jason Chu Wing-Tong, Jerry Lamb Hiu-Fung, Suki Chan Sau-Yu, Lee Siu-Kei, Spencer Lam Seung-Yi, Cheng Cho, Deon Lam Dik-On, Heung Gong Hak, Tsang Siu-Yin, Tai Cheung

Cameo Appearance: Shing Fui-On, Choi Yip-Sun, Wang Lung-Wei, Chik King-Man, Ha Ping, Cow Man (Ngau Lo), Dickey Yau, Ching Siu-Lung

Director: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung

Producer: Golden Harvest & BOB

Screenwriter: Manfred Wong (Man Jun), Dickey Yau

Box office: 21 million HK dollars

Running Time: 99 min

Type: C2B

Being the first successful comic translated movie (Adapted from the manhwa (Chinese "comics") 'Teddy Boy' by Cow Man (Niu Lo), it is also this movie that made Ekin world famous. As much as I despise the subject matter, this film is fairly entertaining. It has a slight sense of humor and its comical background which make the movie so brilliant and interesting to see. The plot is also fairly simple and the language and fighting scenes are kept clean which makes it easy to accept.

Chan Ho Nam (Ekin) was forced into the triad gang when he was 14, and together with his mates, struggle to survived in this black and white world. The five young hoodlums (led by the cute and most talented actor Ekin Cheng of course) sing karaoke, murder, joke around, get beaten up, win and lose women, and learn the value of blind loyalty in director and cinematographer Andrew Lau's nighttime neon-glitzy up-tempo HK gangster world. A sour, stylishly glib and morally challenged movie, sporting state-of-the-art slick visuals. But the same producer/director team made the similar but vastly more substantial "film bleu" TO LIVE AND DIE IN TSIMSHATSUI, in 1994. That movie had some sense of the complex, ambiguous moral world that its underworld characters inhabited, or rejected. Y&D doesn't even care: image is all.