Hong Kong Crossover: Starting as Jing Kun's Go-To Director

After transmigrating to Hong Kong in 1992, Chen Le becomes a good-for-nothing director working for Kwun, making sleazy videotapes.

An investment of over a hundred thousand yuan goes down the drain. Brother Kwun smashes a beer bottle: "If you don't come up with a solution by nightfall, you're going straight to the bottom of Victoria Harbour."

At the eleventh hour, the God-Tier Film Director System activates!

Hit scripts come at the snap of his fingers, camera work improves in an instant, and his market predictions always hit the mark. Every film he makes becomes a smash hit!

His first film, Young and Dangerous, hits theaters to packed houses, with box office numbers blowing up Causeway Bay. Fei Shi of East Star gets beaten until he's on his knees begging for mercy, while Sai Sai Le becomes an overnight sensation and falls for him.

Nobody believes a gangster can make movies? He answers with a crushing box-office face-slapping.

Theater chains blacklist him? He builds his own distribution network and turns the tables.

Investors try to crush him? He buys out a major company instead.

From a tiny Causeway Bay studio to a Southeast Asian film empire, from a director nobody respected to a Hong Kong tycoon who has it all, money, power, and women.

Then British capital and foreign forces bring their political power to bear, moving to wipe him out completely. The whole city thinks he's finished...

But no one knows that the night before Hong Kong's 1997 handover is when his real stage begins.