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The True Hero
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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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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Genre:Action, Crime
Written By:Joe Cheung Tung-Cho, Chi-Wai Sin, Yeuk-Kwong Yuen
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Runtime:97 minutes
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Cast
Joe Cheung Tung-Cho
Director
Simon Yam
Cheung Chi-Wing
Anita Yuen Wing-Yee
Hung
John Tang Yat-Kwan
Kit
Derek Yee Tung-Sing
Principal Chun
Lawrence Cheng Tan-Shui
Joe
Austin Wai Tin-Chi
Brother Four
John Ching Tung
Brother Tiger
Christine Hung Hiu-Wan
Jacqueline Law Wai-Guen
Miss Ho
Dennis Chan Kwok-San
Manfred Wong Man-Chun
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