{ "id": "epre6swn4a", "slug": "crime-story", "title": "Crime Story (重案组)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery", "label": "Crime, thriller, and mystery films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films", "label": "1990s films", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films.thrillers", "label": "Thrillers", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films.thrillers" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films.thrillers.yr-1990-1995", "label": "Released 1990 to 1995", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films.thrillers.yr-1990-1995" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery", "label": "China · 1946 to 2000: Crime, thriller, and mystery films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery", "path": [ { "id": "geo.chn", "label": "China", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946", "label": "China · 1946 to 2000", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery", "label": "Crime, thriller, and mystery films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.chn.t1946.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery" } ] } ], "excerpt": "Crime Story (重案組) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Kirk Wong, starring Jackie Chan as Inspector Eddie Chan investigating a tycoon kidnapping based on the Wang Dehui case; it won Chan the 30th Golden Horse Best Actor and the 13th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing.", "snippet": "Crime Story (重案組) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Kirk Wong, starring Jackie Chan as Inspector Eddie Chan investigating a tycoon kidnapping based on the Wang Dehui case; it won Chan the 30th Golden Horse Best Actor and the 13th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.crime-thriller-mystery.1990s-films.thrillers.yr-1990-1995", "markdown": "# Crime Story (重案组)\n\n**Crime Story** (重案組) is a 1993 Hong Kong action-crime film directed by Kirk Wong (黃志強) and starring [Jackie Chan](https://www.edgepedia.org/jackie-chan) as a police inspector investigating the kidnapping of a wealthy property developer, a case that turns out to involve corruption inside the police force itself. It premiered in Hong Kong on 24 June 1993, runs 107 minutes in [Cantonese](https://www.edgepedia.org/cantonese), and is regarded as a darker, more realistic departure from Chan's usual comedy-action style.[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) • [2](https://time.udn.com/udntime/story/122834/8582040)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Original / English title | 重案組 / Crime Story[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) |\n| Director / stars | Kirk Wong (黃志強), with Jackie Chan also credited as director; starring Jackie Chan and Kent Cheng (鄭則仕)[3](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m) |\n| Release | Hong Kong premiere 24 June 1993; Japan 9 October 1993; United States 30 August 1996[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) • [4](https://letterboxd.com/film/crime-story/releases/) |\n| Runtime / language | 107 minutes, Cantonese, color, stereo sound[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) |\n| Basis | Adapted from the kidnapping case of Hong Kong tycoon Wang Dehui (王德輝)[5](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/) |\n| Major awards | Golden Horse Award Best Actor for Jackie Chan (30th edition, 1993); Hong Kong Film Award for Best Editing (13th edition, 1994), with six nominations in all[6](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-02-Filmmakers-Search/Chinese/Jackie-Chan_c.pdf) • [1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) |\n| Critical reception | 93% on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer from 15 reviews[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1074827-crime_story) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\nThe film follows Inspector Eddie Chan (陳幫辦), an elite detective leading the special investigation unit known as the Crime Squad (重案組). A property tycoon, Wong Yat-fei (王一飛), who had once been kidnapped, demands police protection; Chan is assigned to guard him and observes the tycoon withholding his workers' wages. Detective Hung (洪爺), a veteran officer dissatisfied with police pay, cooperates with a gang to kidnap the same man he once rescued, then demands a ransom of US$60 million from Wong's wife.[3](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m)\n\nWhen the ransom is delivered, police learn the case involves Taiwanese triads and send Chan to Taiwan to investigate. Hung, fearing exposure, volunteers to go to Taiwan as well and destroys witnesses and evidence as the inquiry proceeds. Chan grows suspicious, finds Hung's accomplice in Hong Kong, and the two fight; Chan is knocked unconscious and Hung escapes. Chan later locates the kidnappers' hideout and captures Hung, who is pinned under rubble; Chan saves him at his own risk, and the moved Hung reveals where the hostage is held.[3](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m) Netflix summarizes the same premise as a ruthless gang kidnapping a tycoon while the senior officer handling the case begins to suspect his own superior is involved.[8](https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/60030171)\n\n## Basis in a real case\n\nThe screenplay draws on the kidnapping of Wang Dehui (王德輝), a Hong Kong property magnate. Two films released in 1993, *Crime Story* and *Kidnapping Wong Chak-fai* (綁架黃七輝), were both adapted from the case.[5](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/) A reviewer for the Cinespot site notes that, in an interview recorded for a DVD release, director Kirk Wong insisted on shooting at the locations of the original case to reproduce the events faithfully.[9](https://www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84) The same reviewer offers, as his own inference, that the film's opening gunfight between Chan and AK-armed robbers alludes to the police shootouts with the criminal Yip Kai-foon (葉繼歡).[9](https://www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84)\n\n## Production\n\n**Credits.** The 1905 database lists the production companies as Paragon Films (嘉峰電影有限公司) and Golden Harvest Film Company (嘉禾電影有限公司), while Apple TV credits Paragon Films Ltd. as the studio.[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) • [3](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m) The producers were Chua Lam (蔡瀾), Leonard Ho (何冠昌), and Chan Man-keung (陳文強); the screenplay was by Chin Tien-nan (秦天南) and Chan Man-keung; the cinematography was shared by Anthony Pun (黃岳泰), Poon Hang-sang (潘恒生), Lam Kwok-wah (林國華), Lau Wai-keung (劉偉強), and Chan Kwong-hung (陳廣鴻); and the music was composed by Wong Ying (黃霑).[10](https://cinema.eiga.com/movie/49471/) The cast also includes Law Hang-kang (羅家英), Christine Ng (伍詠薇), Lo Hoi-pang (盧惠光), and Blackie Ko (柯受良).[3](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m) • [8](https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/60030171)\n\n**Location shooting.** The production shot in Taipei: Chan and Kent Cheng filmed scenes at the Sin Loo Theatre on Huaxi Street as their characters arrive from Hong Kong to work the case, with uniformed police on hand among the crowd, and the film drew on roughly one hundred Taiwanese police officers for the Ximending locations.[2](https://time.udn.com/udntime/story/122834/8582040)\n\n**The Kowloon Walled City explosion.** Cinematographer Poon Hang-sang recalled the large explosion scene filmed in the [Kowloon Walled City](https://www.edgepedia.org/kowloon-walled-city): it used twenty cameras and the crew finished shooting and evacuated the site within twenty minutes, which he described as feeling like a battle.[11](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter35.pdf)\n\n**Director and star.** According to the Hong Kong Film Archive, Wong made his name with his debut *The Club* (1981), received several Hong Kong Film Award nominations for *Flash Future Kung Fu* (1983), and is best known for *Crime Story* (1993), starring Jackie Chan, which further sealed his reputation.[12](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter103_e.pdf) Apple TV credits both Wong and Chan as directors.[3](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m) The Cinespot review describes a production in which Chan ultimately took firm control after creative conflicts with Wong, while still accommodating Wong's aim of reshaping Chan's screen image into an angry, volatile character; the reviewer credits the released version's brisk pacing and unrelenting tension for the coherence of Chan's performance.[9](https://www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84) The same review reports that Wong's idea of a fight running down an entire street was distributed by Chan across four large-scale action sequences: the opening gunfight, a car kidnapping, the Ximending chase, and the closing building demolition.[9](https://www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84)\n\n## Reception and awards\n\nAt the 30th Golden Horse Awards in 1993, Jackie Chan won Best Actor for *Crime Story*, the year after winning the same award for *[Police Story](https://www.edgepedia.org/police-story-film-series) III: Super Cop* (1992); the Hong Kong Film Archive records these as consecutive Best Actor wins in 1992 and 1993.[6](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-02-Filmmakers-Search/Chinese/Jackie-Chan_c.pdf) • [13](https://hongkongstory.org/people/jackie-chan) At the 13th Hong Kong Film Awards in 1994 the film won Best Editing for Cheung Yiu-chung (張耀宗) and received nominations for Best Film, Best Director (Wong), Best Actor (Chan), Best Supporting Actor (Kent Cheng), and Best Action Design (Chan).[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/) At the Golden Horse ceremony itself, both Chan and Kent Cheng were nominated for Best Actor.[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/)\n\nCritics received the film as a change of direction for its star. Derek Elley, a veteran film critic who reviewed Asian cinema for Variety, called it a career swerve in which Chan's stunts play second fiddle to plot and mood.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1074827-crime_story) Time Out praised the moody visuals and climactic sequences aboard a rusting sea tanker and in a burning slum tenement as delivering above and beyond genre norms.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1074827-crime_story) On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 93% Tomatometer from 15 reviews, with an average rating of 6.4.[7](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1074827-crime_story) The 1905 database records a viewer score of 7.8.[1](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/)\n\n## Versions and home video\n\nA comparison of releases on the HKFACT site documents cuts differing between versions, including a Taiwanese cut that removes a scene in which Chan burns Law Kar-ying's documents after Au Yeung leaves.[14](https://www.hkfact.com/blog/v/168) The Cinespot review notes that a deleted-features segment on a DVD release mentions a Singapore version with added romance and a different ending from the standard cut.[9](https://www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84) [Letterboxd](https://www.edgepedia.org/letterboxd) lists theatrical releases including Hong Kong (24 June 1993, rated IIB), Japan (9 October 1993), South Korea (31 July 1993), the Philippines (19 January 1994), and the United States (30 August 1996, rated R), with a UK Blu-ray on 28 October 2019.[4](https://letterboxd.com/film/crime-story/releases/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [重案组 (1993) 详细资料, 1905电影网](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/info/)\n2. [成龍經典警匪片《重案組》曾在西門町取景 動員台灣百名警察助陣, 報時光](https://time.udn.com/udntime/story/122834/8582040)\n3. [《重案組》, Apple TV](https://tv.apple.com/tw/movie/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84/umc.cmc.kb17wus6wcl06t6k0c4pm17m)\n4. [Crime Story (1993) releases, Letterboxd](https://letterboxd.com/film/crime-story/releases/)\n5. [重案组 Crime Story (1993), 1905电影网](https://www.1905.com/mdb/film/1928426/)\n6. [香港影人小傳檢索：成龍, 香港電影資料館](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-02-Filmmakers-Search/Chinese/Jackie-Chan_c.pdf)\n7. [Crime Story, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1074827-crime_story)\n8. [重案組, Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/tw/title/60030171)\n9. [《重案組》: 成龍少數風格上非常不同的作品, Cinespot 動映地帶](https://www.cinespot.com/hkmreviews/%E9%87%8D%E6%A1%88%E7%B5%84)\n10. [新ポリス・ストーリー: 作品情報・キャスト・あらすじ, 映画.com](https://cinema.eiga.com/movie/49471/)\n11. [Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter 35](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter35.pdf)\n12. [Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter 103](https://www.filmarchive.gov.hk/documents/6.-Research-and-Publication/06-03_newsletter/newsletter103_e.pdf)\n13. [成龍, 香港紀事館](https://hongkongstory.org/people/jackie-chan)\n14. 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