You can't play by the rules
when there aren't any.
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Yun-Fat Chow as Nick Chen |
Nick Chen (Chow Yun-Fat) is one of the NYPD's most decorated officers. The first Chinese-born immigrant on the force, Chen has used his close ties with a group of Chinese "businessmen" known as the Triads to rise through the ranks. Now, a gold shield detective and the star officer on the city's highly touted Asian Gang Unit; it's Chen's job to keep the peace in Chinatown.
But a turf war has erupted between the Triads and the
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Mark Wahlberg and Yun-Fat Chow as undercover officers Danny Wallace and Nick Chen |
newly arrived and brutally violent Fukienese Dragons. As the precarious peace in
Chinatown is interrupted, the NYPD beefs up the Asian Gang Unit with a new recruit: an
idealistic cop, Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg), who is unaware of how power and influence
have compromised his superiors. When the Tongs boldly attempt to corrupt this young
officer, Chen is forced to realign his loyalties.
| Directed by: | James Foley |
| Produced by: | Dan Halsted |
| Screenplay by: | Robert Pucci |
| Cast: | Yun-Fat Chow as Nick Chen |
| Mark Wahlberg as Danny Wallace | |
| Ric Young as Henry Lee | |
| Jon Kit Lee as Jack | |
| Elizabeth Lindsey as Louise Deng | |
| Byron Mann as Bobby Vu | |
| Andrew Pang as Willy Ung | |
| Paul Ben-Victor as Schabacker | |
| Brian Cox as Sean Wallace | |
| Byron Lawson as Tall Kid | |
| Mitchell A. Lee Yuen as Fuke #1 | |
| Marie Matiko as May | |
| Beau Starr |
The Corruptor opens March 12, 1999 in North America
This movie is rated 
for strong violence, language and sexuality.
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