| The Prince of Temple Street | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Jeffrey Chiang | ||||||||||||||
| Producer: | Liu Kin-fat | ||||||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Yuen Sai-man Lai Man-cheuk | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Andy Lau Joey Wong Deanie Ip Ng Man-tat | ||||||||||||||
| Music: | Dominic Chow | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Ardy Lam | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | Ma Chung-yiu Mui Tung-lit | ||||||||||||||
| Studio: | Cheung Wang Channel Film & Video Wing Fat Film Production | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Golden Princess Amusement | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 95 minutes | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese | ||||||||||||||
| Gross: | HK$12,620,570 | ||||||||||||||
The Prince of Temple Street is a 1992 Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Jeffrey Chiang and starring Andy Lau, Joey Wong, Deanie Ip and Ng Man-tat. Aside of portraying the titular protagonist in the film, Lau also briefly reprises his role as "Lee Rock", the real life-inspired protagonist from the film series of the same name.
Triad leader Chiu (Ray Lui) calls up a meeting hoping to find someone willing to adopt an abandoned male infant he picked up in Temple Street. During the meeting, nobody was able to stop the infant from crying until it was passed to a servant's arms. He is Tong Chau-sui (Ng Man-tat), who is chosen as the adoptive father of the infant. Because there were twelve people in the meeting and everyone were the infant's godparents, Chiu names the infant Tong Sap-yee (lit. "Tong Twelve"), whom everyone calls as "Prince Twelve".
On the surface, Prince Twelve (Andy Lau) seems like a favored person, but down his heart, he is lonelier than everyone else. His adoptive father, Chau-sui, is a worker of a mahjong house in Temple Street while his adoptive mother, Phoenix (Deanie Ip), is an ex-prostitute who claims to have abandoned his son in Temple Street on the same day Twelve was abandoned, and thus, treats Prince Twelve as her biological son.
The renowned Prince Twelve has a rival named Lap Ling (Chin Ho), who is the leader of the Kwoon Chung Gang and a person more terrible than a devil. One day, Prince Twelve meets a girl who came preaching at Temple Street named Teresa (Joey Wong). From the first moment he looked at her, he fell in love with her.
The film grossed HK$12,620,570 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 20 August to 3 September 1992 in Hong Kong.