Prison on Fire

Infobox Film
name = Prison on Fire


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director = Ringo Lam
producer = Karl Maka
Catherine S.K. Chang
writer = Nam Yin
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starring = Chow Yun-Fat Tony Leung Ka-Fai Roy Cheung
music = Lowell Lowe
cinematography = Lau Hung-Chuen
Joe Chan Kwong-Hung
Wong Man-Wan
Jingle Ma
Cho Wai-Kei
Cinema City Cinematographers Unit
editing = Cinema City Production Co. Ltd. Editing Unit
distributor = Cinema City Film Co. Ltd.
released = November 13, 1987
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country = flagicon|Hong Kong|colonial Hong Kong
language = Cantonese
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followed_by = "Prison on Fire II"
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amg_id = 1:39255
imdb_id = 0093304

"Prison on Fire" (zh-tcy|t=監獄風雲|cy="Gaam yuk fung wan"; pinyin: "Jiān yù fēng yún") is a 1987 Hong Kong action film directed by Ringo Lam and starring Chow Yun-Fat. The film was followed by a sequel, "Prison on Fire II", in 1991.

An explosive crime-drama that caused a sensation upon its release. Despite the bloodshed and violence, audiences were deeply moved by the fraternal bond between the two leading characters. Chow Yun-Fat and Tony Leung Ka-Fai are riveting as the inmates who get involved with the intricacies of the prison system. The film co-stars Roy Cheung as a prison guard.

Plot

The plot mostly involves the two main characters, Ching and Yiu and problems they face with Mickey, a fellow inmate and "Assassin", a prison guard. Yiu is sentenced to three years for manslaughter, in a fight for his father, he pushed a man under a bus, Ching is sent to prison for killing his wife for being a hooker.

During the end of the film, inmates decide to go on hunger strike to protest against the cigarette price rise, this causes problems with Assassin and Ching bit Surface's ear off and gets an extended sentence you see in Prison on Fire II, Yiu is released later on.

ee also

* "Prison on Fire II"

External links

*imdb title|id=0093304|title=Prison on Fire