{"product_id":"infernal-affairs-1159-used","title":"The Infernal Affairs Trilogy (#1159) w\/SLIPCASE USED","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Hong Kong crime drama was jolted to new life with the release of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e trilogy, a bracing, explosively stylish critical and commercial triumph that introduced a dazzling level of narrative and thematic complexity to the genre with its gripping saga of two rival moles—played by superstars Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah—who navigate slippery moral choices as they move between the intersecting territories of Hong Kong’s police force and its criminal underworld. Set during the uncertainty of the city-state’s handover from Britain to China and steeped in Buddhist philosophy, these ingeniously crafted tales of self-deception and betrayal mirror Hong Kong’s own fractured identity and the psychic schisms of life in a postcolonial purgatory.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"header__primarytitle\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTwo of Hong Kong cinema’s most iconic leading men, Tony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah, face off in the breathtaking thriller that revitalized the city-state’s twenty-first-century film industry, launched a blockbuster franchise, and inspired Martin Scorsese’s\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Departed.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe setup is diabolical in its simplicity: two undercover moles—a police officer (Leung) assigned to infiltrate a ruthless triad by posing as a gangster, and a gangster (Lau) who becomes a police officer in order to serve as a spy for the underworld—find themselves locked in a deadly game of cat and mouse, each racing against time to unmask the other. As the shifting loyalties, murky moral compromises, and deadly betrayals mount,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eraises haunting questions about what it means to live a double life, lost in a labyrinth of conflicting identities and allegiances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"header__primarytitle\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eInfernal Affairs II\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe first of two sequels to follow in the wake of the massively successful\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003esoftens the original’s furious pulp punch in favor of something more sweeping, elegiac, and overtly political. Flashing back in time,\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eInfernal Affairs II\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etraces the tangled histories that bind the trilogy’s two pairs of adversaries: the young, dueling moles (here played by Edison Chen Koon-hei and Shawn Yue Man-lok), and the ascendant crime boss (Eric Tsang Chi-wai) and police inspector (Anthony Wong Chau-sang) whose respective rises reveal a shocking hidden connection. Unfolding against the political and psychological upheaval of Hong Kong’s handover from Britain to China, this elegant, character-driven crime drama powerfully connects its themes of split loyalties to the city-state’s own postcolonial identity crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cheader class=\"product-detail-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-detail-title\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"header__primarytitle\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"name\"\u003eInfernal Affairs III\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product-summary\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTony Leung Chiu-wai and Andy Lau Tak-wah return for the cathartic conclusion of the\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfernal Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etrilogy, which layers on even more deep-cover intrigue while steering the series into increasingly complex psychological territory. Dancing back and forth in time to before and after the events of the original film,\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eInfernal Affairs III\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003efollows triad gangster turned corrupt cop Lau Kin-ming (Lau) as he goes to dangerous lengths to avoid detection, matches wits with a devious rival in the force (Leon Lai), and finds himself haunted by the fate of his former undercover nemesis (Leung). 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