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Cold War 1994

2026 · Thriller · Longman Leung · 1h 57m

A background check on a Hong Kong police chief in 2017 opens the file on an operation that went wrong in 1994, when the city's old money, the triads and the British were all pulling at each other. Two timelines and a lot of names.

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