Drug War

Drug War (2012)

毒戰

HIGH RISK HIGH RETURN.

A drug cartel boss is arrested in a raid and coerced into betraying his former accomplices as part of an undercover operation.

Date of release
2012-11-15
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (318)
Runtime
1h 47m
Genres
Action, Drama, Crime
Director
Johnnie To

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $24.7M

Drug War is a 2012 action thriller film directed and produced by Johnnie To. A Chinese-Hong Kong co-production, the film stars Sun Honglei as Police Captain Zhang, who partners with a drug lord named Timmy Choi after Choi is arrested. To avoid the death penalty, Choi agrees to reveal information about his partners' methamphetamine ring. Zhang starts to harbor doubts about Choi's honesty as the police begin to take on the drug ring.

Production

The film was billed as To's first action film to be entirely shot and set in mainland China. To had previously shot the romance film Romancing in Thin Air in China.

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