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Overheard (2009)

Overheard poster
Original title
竊聽風雲
Directed by
Felix Chong, Alan Mak
Genre
crime film, thriller film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 40m
Rated
R
Rating
6.9 of 10 from 120 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three police officers spy on a company as part of their surveillance job. Their personal lives and ambitions become tangled with the secrets they overhear.

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What happens

Overheard (traditional Chinese: 竊聽風雲; simplified Chinese: 窃听风云; pinyin: Qie Ting Feng Yun; Cantonese Yale: Sit Teng Fung Wan) is a 2009 Hong Kong crime thriller film written and directed by Alan Mak and Felix Chong, and produced by Henry Fong and Derek Yee. The film stars Lau Ching-wan, Louis Koo and Daniel Wu as a trio of police officers conducting surveillance on a public company. The film was released theatrically in Hong Kong on 30 July 2009. The sequel, Overheard 2, was released in 2011. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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