Anti-Corruption (film) explained

Anti-Corruption
Director:Ng See Yuen
Starring:Bill Lake, Ling Hon
Distributor:Eternal Film
Runtime:90 minutes
Country:Hong Kong
Language:Mandarin Chinese

Anti-Corruption (Chinese: t=廉政風暴 |s=廉政风波 |p=Lian zheng feng bo |l=Storm of Integrity) is a 1975 film written and directed by Ng See Yuen.[1] It was the first film produced by Ng's company Seasonal Film Corporation. Anti-Corruption was co-produced by Eternal Film.

The film shows the incidents that precipitated the creation of the Independent Commission Against Corruption in 1974. Anti-Corruption is a crime thriller that depicts police corruption and was based on an inquiry into the activities of the drug lord Wu Xihao between 1973 and 1974. It was a low-budget film that did well at the box office.[2] On 12 October 1979, the scholar Bo Yang penned a 4,000-word essay about the film in the China Times. Anti-Corruptions success led to many more Hong Kong films about police and criminals to be made.

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  1. Web site: Anti-Corruption (1975) . Hong Kong Cinemagic . 2 July 2017.
  2. News: 行光 . 2016-09-29 . 《S風暴》反貪包裝警匪類型 . Chinese . . 2020-11-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20201116020824/https://www.filmcritics.org.hk/film-review/node/2017/06/22/《s風暴》反貪包裝警匪類型 . 2020-11-16 .