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Released
2003 · FILM

Infernal Affairs II

A rookie police mole infiltrates Hong Kong’s most powerful Triad just as the 1997 handover ignites a brutal power struggle, forcing him to outwit rival spies and survive a city on the brink of chaos.

“The Birth of a Legend.”

Directed by
Wai Keung Lau, Alan Mak
Written by
Alan Mak, Felix Chong
Runtime
119 min
Language
CN
ActionCrimeDrama
Streaming on
  • The Criterion Channel

Synopsis

This prequel to the original film follows a violent power struggle among the Triads that takes place during the 1997 handover of Hong Kong, establishing the events that lead into the first film.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 17

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Curran PangShot by Wai Keung LauScored by Kwong Wing Chan

Box Office

2003 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 26× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$3.2M

Budget$125K
Worldwide gross$3.2M
break-even (2.5×)

Also known as

  • Infernal Affairs II - Abstieg in die achte Höllede
  • Infernal Affairs 2en
  • Juego sucio 2es
  • Infernal Affairs IIit

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