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Z Storm
Official poster
Traditional ChineseZ風ふう暴
Simplified ChineseZ风暴
Hanyu PinyinZ Fēng Bào
JyutpingZ Fung1 Bou6
Directed byDavid Lam
Screenplay byHo-Wah Wong
Story byDavid Lam
Produced byJohn Chong
Starring
CinematographyTony Cheung
Edited byChi-Leung Kwong
Hung Poon
Music byAnthony Chue
Production
companies
Distributed byPegasus Motion Pictures Distribution
Release date
  • 19 June 2014 (2014-06-19)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
BudgetHK$60 million
(US$7.75 million)[1]
Box officeUS$17.2 million[2]

Z Storm (Chinese: Z風ふう暴) is a 2014 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by David Lam, and starring Louis Koo, Gordon Lam and Dada Chan.[1] The plot revolves around Hong Kong's Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) and its investigation of a charity fund that has become involved in a Madoff-style ponzi scheme.[3][4]

Co-produced by Pegasus Motion Pictures, Sil-Metropole Organisation and LeVision Pictures,[5][6] it is the first installment in a pentalogy, succeeded by S Storm (2016),[7] L Storm (2018), P Storm (2019) and G Storm (2021).

Plot summary

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This is a story about the biggest financial fraud attempted in Hong Kong, directed at the Government of Hong Kong and all 7 million Hong Kong citizens... no one is free from the scheme. Within the four decades of guarding Hong Kong's financial integrity, the ICAC has never come across an opponent so huge and so well organized as in the Z Torrent file... shadowy figures from the underworld of South America, Italy and Europe all ready to plot against the estimated 150 million dollars of Hong Kong citizens' tax money which was pooled in a fund called the Community Care Fund. High-profile chartered accountants, high ranking law enforcers, power lawyers, the super entrepreneurs; they all have their shares of play but none can really grasp the big picture; they are there only for what they desire most. When the wife of an up-rising star Superintendent of police force reported his corruption simply out of bitterness for being ill-treated, little did she know she is about to pull the head string from a very well weaved web of deceive, greed, sex, power, and last but not least, fear. The ICAC agent Luk who took charge of the simple complaint felt otherwise... it's his passion for justice that has been driving him all these years in the battle against bribery and corruption, even after losing his beloved wife. Further investigation soon revealed many unanswered questions and loose ends...the death of an ex-godfather status accountant of Hong Kong, the threats to even the seemingly harmless witnesses and informers, and the surfacing of a mysterious lady, all have connection with Luk's wanted list but with a background as simple and as tragic as a girl next door with cancer. As Luk dug deeper into the web, he is being hunted by trained foreign mercenaries; a tactic very seldom or never heard of in the history of Hong Kong's underworld! With the support of his superior the old but streetwise Deputy Chief of ICAC, Yu, Luk eventually unlocked the door to the plan, but only after a bloodbath gun battle which almost cost him his life and that of the attractive mysterious woman, Angel.

Cast

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  • Louis Koo as William Luk (陸りく志こころざし廉れん)
  • Gordon Lam as Wong Man-ban (黃き文ぶん彬あきら)
  • Dada Chan as Angel Leung (梁りょう安やすし瑩)
  • Michael Wong as Malcolm Wu (胡えびす志こころざし勇いさむ)
  • Janelle Sing as Tammy Tam (譚たん美び莉)
  • Lo Hoi-pang as Law Tak-wing (羅ら德永とくなが)
  • Stephen Au as On Tat (安達あだち)
  • Derek Tsang as Joe Ma (馬うま繼つぎ祖そ)
  • Cheung Siu-fai as Yu Hung-sing (余よ洪ひろし盛もり)
  • Felix Lok as Tsui Wai-king (徐じょ懷ふところ景けい)
  • Liu Kai-chi as Cheung Keung (張ちょう強つよし)
  • Philip Keung as Ho Tak-wing (何なに德とく榮さかえ)
  • Tony Ho as Stephen Shum (沈濟全ぜん)
  • Deno Cheung as Siu-leung (細ほそ良りょう/小しょう良りょう)
  • Clement Tien as Pa (阿おもね拔)
  • Jenny Xu as Mrs. Luk
  • Crystal Wang as Kong Wai-ling (黃き江こう蕙玲)
  • Rosanne Lui as Kong Wai-ling's mother
  • Alfred Cheung as Edmond Wai (韋耀庭にわ)
  • May Law as Fan Law Pui-fong (范羅佩芳)
  • Henry Fong as Tsang Yuk-ming (曾玉明あきら)
  • Joe Cheung as Chan Chi-choi (陳ちん智さとし才ざい)

References

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  1. ^ a b Frater, Patrick (23 March 2014). "Pegasus Rides in With 'Z Storm,' 'Ip Man 3'". Variety. Retrieved 10 January 2023.
  2. ^ "Z STORM". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  3. ^ Shackleton, Liz (7 November 2013). "Pegasus stirs up Z storm". Media Business Insight Limited. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  4. ^ Ma, Kevin (9 December 2014). "Fist, Z Storm, Taoist scripts approved by SAPPRFT". Film Business Asia Limited. Archived from the original on 9 December 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  5. ^ "Z Storm". EntGroup Inc. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  6. ^ "电影拍はく摄制作せいさく备案公示こうじ表ひょう". State Administration of Radio, Film, and Television (China). Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  7. ^ "反はん贪风暴2 S風ふう暴 (2016)". Douban (in Chinese). Retrieved 1 November 2022.
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