The True Hero (1994)

  • NR
  • 10/29/1994 (HK)
  • Action, Crime
  • 1h 37m

Overview

An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?

Joe Cheung Tung-cho

Writer, Director

Chi-Wai Sin

Writer

Yeuk-Kwong Yuen

Writer

Cast

Simon Yam's headshot

Simon Yam

Cheung Chi-Wing
Anita Yuen Wing-Yee's headshot

Anita Yuen Wing-Yee

Hung
John Dang's headshot

John Dang

Kit
Derek Yee Tung-Sing's headshot

Derek Yee Tung-Sing

Principal Chun
Lawrence Cheng's headshot

Lawrence Cheng

Joe
Austin Wai Tin-Chi's headshot

Austin Wai Tin-Chi

Brother Four
John Ching Tung's headshot

John Ching Tung

Brother Tiger
Christine Hung Hiu-Wan's headshot

Christine Hung Hiu-Wan

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