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The performance of "The Besieged City" in the first half of the year has injected new vitality into the Hong Kong film industry.

The producer of the film, Chen Luochao, now brings another good news -

After 6 years of filming, there is finally some news about "Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano": it is expected to be released at the end of the year!

Directed by Juno Mak,After filming, it was "shelved" for 6 years. It was a police and gangster film that was said to challenge "Infernal Affairs", was once highly expected.

The film has a strong and fresh cast, with the main cast including:

Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Lau Ching Wan, Louis Koo, Gao Yuanyuanetc., as well as a group of veteran Hong Kong film actors and golden supporting actors such as Lo Hoi-pang and Paw Hee-ching.

It is reported that the casting of the film alone went through a long process. According to previous reports by Hong Kong media, Chow Yun-fat and Andy Lau were initially approached for the role, but both turned it down. Tony Leung and Nick Cheung were then approached, but were also unsuccessful.

It was not until Tony Leung Ka Fai and Takeshi Kaneshiro were found that the two main casts were finally finalized.

Takeshi Kaneshiro temporarily retired from the screen after filming "Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain"This movie is also the only movie that Takeshi Kaneshiro has completed but not released, and it is also his "newest" movie.

"Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano" was prepared for three years. After filming was completed in 2018, it was delayed for three years and three years. It was once announced that it would be released in December 2021, but then there was no news. To borrow the classic line of Chen Yongren, played by Tony Leung Chiu-wai in "Infernal Affairs":

"It was clearly agreed to be three years, but three years passed and then another three years, and then another three years, and it's almost been ten years, boss!"

"Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano" has whetted everyone's appetite long ago. The various posters and stills before were in black and white tones, with a very artistic style.

The film has always maintained a high degree of mystery, but the plot synopsis reveals the general content: a sudden explosion killed a wealthy Hong Kong businessman, leading to the struggle between drug traffickers and anti-drug activists...

Director Mak Junlong previously revealed in an interview with the media thatHe will make "Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain" into an epic police and gangster tetralogy.The fact that he dares to call his work an "epic" and wants to make it into a four-part series shows his confidence.

As we all know,"Infernal Affairs" is only a trilogy, and "Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano" is going to be a quadrilogy, which is tantamount to challenging this "benchmark of Hong Kong police and gangster films."

In addition to the strong cast of leading actors and the film's ambitious goals, director Junlong Mak, a well-known rich second-generation in the Hong Kong entertainment industry, is also placed with high hopes.

Juno Mak debuted in the entertainment industry in his early years, singing, dancing and acting. He was also rebellious at one point. He was also Gillian Chung's ex-boyfriend, played trendy brands, and was once Edison Chen's mortal enemy.

Later, when Mak Junlong transformed himself into a film director, people began to see his other side: in 2013, his first film "Zombie" achieved good results and reputation, and received multiple nominations for the Hong Kong Film Awards. He was considered a creative cross-border director.

"Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain" is Juno Mak's second directorial film, and the title comes from "The Art of War", which is quite meaningful.

Juno Mak once said that the title also represents a kind of cold balance. He wanted to subvert the conventional police and gangster films and present a more international and humane world on the big screen.

If you want to surpass the benchmark of Hong Kong police and gangster films "Infernal Affairs", the production budget is indispensable, so "Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain" is also a big deal.

The film cost hundreds of millions to produce. In the film, it snowed in Causeway Bay in Hong Kong. In order to realize this dream scene, the crew specially built a 1:1 "Causeway Bay" in a steel plant in Huizhou, Guangdong.

At the same time, if the story is to have depth, the characterization of the characters' humanity is also indispensable.

In this regard, Juno Mak said at the film's launch conference in 2017 that the core of "Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano" is to portray human nature: "On the surface, it is a character, a policeman, a killer, a gangster, but the complexity is human, and human beings are complex things."

At present, the identities of the leading actors have been revealed, and we can first guess the direction of the plot and character relationships.

Takeshi Kaneshiro, plays the role of the heir to a large conglomerate who wants to cleanse his family’s dark history.

Tony Leung, plays a psychologist serving the police force.

Lau Ching Wan, plays the role of a policeman, who is both good and evil; Louis Koo, plays the killer, who is a "non-traditional villain".

Gao Yuanyuan, plays a psychiatrist and falls in love with Takeshi Kaneshiro in the film. Gao Yuanyuan was not yet a mother when she filmed this movie. Now her daughter is 5 years old and "Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano" has not yet been released.

At present, Takeshi Kaneshiro's role seems to be the most challenging. It is reported that he decided to star in the film because he liked the script very much after reading it.

This movie, which took 6 years to shoot, is finally reported to be released, and people are looking forward to Takeshi Kaneshiro's performance in this "new" movie.

However, there are some concerns.

Chen Luochao, the producer of "The Besieged City of Kowloon", said that the market has been looking forward to "Wind, Forest, Fire and Volcano", but the biggest concern is that the actors in the film all look the same as they did 5 or 6 years ago. It is not known whether everyone can still accept the final effect.

But no matter what, after waiting for three and three years, we finally got to "Wind, Forest, Fire and Mountain", which is good news in itself.

Also, too many people miss Takeshi Kaneshiro.

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