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The True Hero

The True Hero

19946.01h 37m

Overview

An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?

Directed by Joe Cheung Tung-Cho
Written by Joe Cheung Tung-Cho, Yeuk-Kwong Yuen, Chi-Wai Sin
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Top Cast

Simon Yam

Simon Yam

Cheung Chi-Wing

Anita Yuen Wing-Yee

Anita Yuen Wing-Yee

Hung

John Tang Yat-Kwan

John Tang Yat-Kwan

Kit

Derek Yee

Derek Yee

Principal Chun

Lawrence Cheng Tan-Shui

Lawrence Cheng Tan-Shui

Joe

Austin Wai Tin-Chi

Austin Wai Tin-Chi

Brother Four

John Ching Tung

John Ching Tung

Brother Tiger

C

Christine Hung Hiu-Wan

Jacqueline Law Wai-Guen

Jacqueline Law Wai-Guen

Miss Ho

Dennis Chan Kwok-San

Dennis Chan Kwok-San

About The True Hero

The True Hero is a action, crime film released in 1994. Directed by Joe Cheung Tung-Cho, it stars Simon Yam, Anita Yuen Wing-Yee, John Tang Yat-Kwan. An ex-con has spent the last ten years of his life in prison for defending the lives of his best friend and his best friend's sister. While in jail he learns to become a teacher's aide. In school he comes across these troubled teens who start hanging around a sleazy low-level triad that runs a video arcade, luring kids by exchanging games for drug running. He eventually befriends the kids pissing off the triad who gets him fired by digging up dirt on his past. But he doesn't care, he proposes to his girlfriend and she says yes but a student is still held under the grasp of the triad. So he goes back into action to try and free the kid and ridding the neighborhood of the sleazy scumbag. Can he reach the kid and change the kid's ways? Will the ex-con and his girl live happily ever after?

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