Island of Greed

Island of Greed is a 1997 Hong Kong action political crime thriller film directed by Michael Mak and starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung Ka-fai. ^[1]

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1990s political thriller films
1997 action thriller films
1997 crime thriller films
1997 martial arts films
Films directed by Michael Mak

Andy Lau

Andy Lau Tak-wah (born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer.

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Annie Wu (actress)

Annie Wu (born 21 August 1978) is a Taiwanese actress and model.

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Bid rigging

Bid rigging is a fraudulent scheme in a procurement action which enables companies to submit non-competitive bids.

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Chin Shih-chieh

Chin Shih-chieh (born 29 December 1951) is a Taiwanese actor, director and playwright.

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China Star Entertainment Group

China Star Entertainment Limited is a Hong Kong film production company and film distributor.

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Crime fiction, detective story, murder mystery, mystery novel, and police novel are terms used to describe narratives that centre on criminal acts and especially on the investigation, either by an amateur or a professional detective, of a crime, often a murder.

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Death row

Death row, also known as condemned row, is a place in a prison that houses inmates awaiting execution after being convicted of a capital crime and sentenced to death.

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Disfranchisement

Disfranchisement, also disenfranchisement (which has become more common since 1982) or voter disqualification, is the restriction of suffrage (the right to vote) of a person or group of people, or a practice that has the effect of preventing someone from exercising the right to vote.

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Doze Niu

Doze Niu (also known as Niu Chen-zer; born June 22, 1966) is a Taiwanese actor, film director, show host, screenwriter, and producer.

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Government of the Republic of China

The Government of the Republic of China, is the national authority whose actual-controlled territory consists of main island of Taiwan (Formosa), Penghu, Kinmen, Matsu, and other island groups, collectively known as ''Taiwan Area'' or ''Free Area''.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Hong Kong action cinema

Hong Kong action cinema is the principal source of the Hong Kong film industry's global fame.

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Hong Kong Cinemagic

Hong Kong Cinemagic, sometimes referred to as HKCinemagic, is a bilingual (French and English) website providing a repository for information about Chinese language films from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan, and the people who created them.

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Action Choreography is an annual Hong Kong industry award presented to a choreographer or a group of choreographers for the best achievement in action choreography.

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor is an annual Hong Kong industry award presented to an actor for the best performance by an actor in a leading role.

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actress is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards (HKFA).

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Art Direction

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Art Direction is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards for the best art direction in a Hong Kong film.

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Original Film Song is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards for a film with the best original song.

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Screenplay is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards for best screenplay in a Hong Kong film.

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Hong Kong Film Award for Best Sound Design

The Hong Kong Film Award for Best Sound Design is an award presented annually at the Hong Kong Film Awards for a film with the best sound design.

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Jingle Ma

Jingle Ma Cho Shing (born 1957) is a Hong Kong-based writer and director, best known for his action films such as Tokyo Raiders and Seoul Raiders.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang (KMT), also referred to as the Guomindang (GMD), the Nationalist Party of China (NPC) or the Chinese Nationalist Party (CNP), is a major political party in the Republic of China, initially based on the Chinese mainland and then in Taiwan since 1949.

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Legislative Yuan

The Legislative Yuan is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China (Taiwan) located in Taipei.

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Michael Mak (director)

Michael Mak (born 16 August 1958) is a Hong Kong film director who is known for directing Dragon Force, Everlasting Love and Island of Greed.

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Ministry of Justice (Taiwan)

The Ministry of Justice (MOJ) is a ministerial level body of the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan), responsible for carrying out various regulatory and prosecutorial functions.

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Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau

The Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) is a criminal investigation and counterintelligence agency reporting under the Ministry of Justice of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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National Police Agency (Taiwan)

The National Police Agency, Ministry of the Interior (NPA) is an agency under the Ministry of the Interior of the Republic of China (Taiwan).

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Paulyn Sun

Paulyn Sun (born Suen Kai-kwan; 11 September 1974), also known as Alien Sun and Pauline Suen is a Hongkonger-Singaporean actress and beauty pageant titleholder.

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Political cinema

Political cinema, in the narrow sense, refers to cinema products that portray events or social conditions, either current or historical, through a partisan perspective, with the intent of informing or agitating the spectator.

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Raymond Wong (composer)

Raymond Wong Ying-wah (born 6 April 1968) is a Hong Kong film score composer.

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Shilin Night Market

Shilin Night Market is a night market in Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan, often considered to be the largest and most famous night market in Taiwan.

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Taipei

Taipei, officially Taipei City, is the capital and a special municipality of Taiwan.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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Tony Leung Ka-fai

Tony Leung Ka-fai (born 1 February 1958) is a Hong Kong actor who is a four-time winner of the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.

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Triad (organized crime)

A triad is a Chinese transnational organized crime syndicate based in Greater China with outposts in various countries having significant overseas Chinese populations.

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Wang Jui

Wang Hsi-jui (25 July 1930 – 1 June 2016), known by his stage name Wang Jui (王瑞), was a Taiwanese actor.

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Wang Ping (Taiwanese actress)

Wang Ping(1 October 1950) is a Taiwanese film actress, working in the Cinema of Hong Kong.

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Win's Entertainment

Win's Movie and Television Production (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. originally known as Win's Movie Production & I/E Co.

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Winston Chao

Winston Chao Wen-hsuan (born 9 June 1960) is a Taiwanese actor.

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Wu Bai

Wu Chun-lin (born 14 January 1968), better known by his stage name Wu Bai, is a Taiwanese rock singer, songwriter and actor.

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17th Hong Kong Film Awards

The 17th Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, honored the best films of 1997 and took place on 26 April 1998 at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island_of_Greed

Also known as The Island of Greed.

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See also

1990s political thriller films

1997 action thriller films

1997 crime thriller films

1997 martial arts films

Films directed by Michael Mak

References