12 December 1979 Crime 83 mins
Inspector Chan is determined to crack a drug syndicate. He gets the goods on family man and drug addict/dealer Tam, and convinces him to become an informer. However, Tam betrays Chan and lets him down more than once. Chan persists with Tam, despite strong pressure from his skeptical superiors.
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Sek Kin as Inspector Chan
Pai Ying as Tam
Lisa Chiao Chiao as Casino boss
Chung Chi-Keung as Detective
Peter Yung Wai-Chuen Director
Peter Yung Wai-Chuen Story
Peter Yung Wai-Chuen Writer
Sin Lee Writer
Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang Assistant Director
Xing gui Trailer
Hong Kong 12 December 1979
Taiwan 14 November 2025
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1979:
14 August 1979
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
27 May 1979
Normal everyday life in an apartment building on Plantagenstraße in East Berlin is disrupted when a truck pulls up with the new tenants' furniture.
25 August 1979
Taking the stage with the sun sinking in the West, Cheap Trick opened their Reading Festival appearance aptly with the raucous, quick-hittin' action of "Hello There", followed by the power pop rockin' "Come On, Come On".
01 January 1979
“I don’t drive, but I know people who’ll drive 100 metres to go to the shops. Our society is obsessed with the car, with coming and going, getting somewhere.
24 July 1979
A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband.
01 January 1979
Michel Auder’s Jesus – in which underground NY artists and Warhol superstars openly discuss their beliefs.
29 October 1979
Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi.
25 May 1979
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet.
03 July 1979
A 40 year old former football star and idol of his generation feels that there's a gap between him and the rest of his peers.
24 May 1979
Journalist digs into the workings of a smuggling outfit led by a bigamist who's living under two names in different cities.
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