Raging Fire (2021) on Netflix
Cheung Sung-bong has spent years on the front line of Hong Kong's Regional Crime Unit. A drugs bust is ambushed, and the man behind it is Yau Kong-ngo, once his own protégé.
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- Netflix3.9/5
- IMDb6.5/107,093 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes90%
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Plot summary
Cheung Sung-bong is a senior inspector in Hong Kong's Regional Crime Unit, a man with a long record of success in dangerous cases. Yau Kong-ngo once served under him as a protégé; a case sent Yau and his men to prison, and they hold Cheung and the department responsible. During a major drugs bust against the gangster Wong Kwun, officers are ambushed. Yau's team kills Wong Kwun and takes the drugs. Cheung sets out to track him down, and his team raids nightclubs looking for the dealer who handled Wong Kwun's drugs, a search that leads them to a man called Gwai.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Raging Fire (2021)
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- Director Benny Chan fell ill during the making of Raging Fire and was later diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer; he completed his directing duties but could not take part in post-production and died on 23 August 2020.
- Raging Fire had originally been planned to be filmed in a foreign country, but producer and star Donnie Yen persuaded co-producer and director Benny Chan to shoot it in Hong Kong instead.
- For a scene shot on 6 May 2019, Donnie Yen jumped from a balcony and was suspended on wires for two hours.
- A promotional song for Raging Fire was released as a tribute to director Benny Chan: a cover of George Lam's A Real Man performed by Andy Lau, Donnie Yen, Wu Jing, Nick Cheung and Jordan Chan, with slightly altered lyrics by Keith Chan.
