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Infernal Affairs film series | |||||||||||
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Traditional Chinese | 無間道系列 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 无间道系列 | ||||||||||
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Written by | Felix Chong Alan Mak | ||||||||||
Produced by | Andrew Lau | ||||||||||
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Music by | Chan Kwong-wing | ||||||||||
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Distributed by | Media Asia Distributions | ||||||||||
Release date | 2002–2003 | ||||||||||
Running time | 338 minutes | ||||||||||
Country | Hong Kong | ||||||||||
Language | Cantonese | ||||||||||
Box office | 110,202,213 HKD |
Infernal Affairs is a series of three crime-action films directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak, starring Andy Lau and Tony Leung. It tells the story of a police officer who infiltrates the triads, and a police officer secretly working for the same gang. The Chinese title means "the non-stop way", a reference to Avici, the lowest level of hell in Buddhism. The English title is a word play combining the law enforcement term "internal affairs" with the adjective "infernal". The Criterion Collection released the trilogy as a box set on November 15, 2022.