MOVIE · 1991
To Be Number One
CrimeDramaFamilyRomance136 min
Ho escapes a life of peasant labor for Hong Kong and begins a steady climb through the city’s criminal underworld, rising from newcomer to one of its most feared gang bosses. Ray Lui is Ho, charting the character’s shift from desperate outsider to calculating power broker, while Cecilia Yip and Kent Cheng appear among the family, allies, and rivals pulled into his orbit. Drawing from the story of real-life gangster Ng Sik-ho, the film tracks ambition, money, and violence through the crowded streets and backroom deals of Hong Kong’s organized crime world.
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