The Stool Pigeon (2010 film)

The Stool Pigeon simplified Chinese traditional Chinese pinyin Xin Rn Jyutping Sin3 Jan4 is 2010 Hong KongChinese action film directed by Dante Lam and starring Nicholas Tse, Nick Cheung and Gwei Lunmei. The film is about police detective, Don Lee Cheung, who uses informants to gain information about gangsters. Lee begins to feel guilty when his informants are caught, but sends out a street racer named Ghost Tse as an informant to gain information about a gangster name Barbarian Lu Yi.

Don Lee Nick Cheung, a police detective in Kowloon whose reliance on informants leaves him struggling with a guilty conscience. Lees previous stool pigeons cover was blown and was attacked, leading him paranoid and driven from his wife and home. Lee begins to doubt his own methods. Lee recruits a street racer named Ghost Nicholas Tse as his latest stool pigeon who is assigned to infiltrate a gang led by the notorious armed robber Barbarian Lu Yi. Ghost accepts Lees offer so he can rescue his sister from a life of prostitution as well as help his fathers onemillion dollar debt. Ghost joins an illegal street race to gain acceptance into Barbarians gang. Lee also has personal problems of his own, as wife Cher Miao Pu who he is separated with tried to commit suicide a few months previously and has since had amnesia. Lee begins to realize how wrong he is by exploiting his informants and desperately tries to right his wrongs before Ghost is in serious trouble. Production on The Stool Pigeon began on November 2, 2009. Early during the production of the film, the Chinese film conglomerate Huayi Brothers signed on to take an equity stake and a production credit for the film. Despite having much of the same cast of his previous hit film Beast Stalker, Dante Lam said The Stool Pigeon is not a sequel. Dante stated that he felt the pressure when I was working on the new movie because The Beast Stalker did so well and received a lot of positive feedback. I did not want the new film to live in its shadow because it is an entirely different movie, except with the same cast. Dante Lam chose the theme of an informant in the film, stating that there is Hong Kong shootout film on this theme yet. Its a good subject for exploring human nature and I have done research with involved people in real life. ........

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