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Undercurrent: from Portland Street to the Top of Victoria Harbor
On a rainy night in 1990, Chaoshan young man Chen Guosheng stepped into the arena of Portland Street in Hong Kong to save his father's debt. From a "four-nine boy" at the bottom to the leader of the society, he climbed to the top of the underworld in blood and fire with his fists and brains. Hong Kong's return, financial turmoil, changing times... When the rules of the world were rewritten, he resolutely shed the gangster label, injected bloody capital into legal businesses, and rebuilt the empi
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Xianglan Street Heroes
Let's see how an undercover policeman carves out his own path to a heroic legend in Hong Kong in 1979, amid the excitement of the world, business wars and movie glitz.
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Causeway Bay Past: from Arcade to Empire
In 1986, 17-year-old Chen Yongren was a young man working at an arcade in Causeway Bay, struggling to survive for his mother and younger sister. After ten years of blood and fire, he became a popular member of the underworld, but was "died" on the eve of his return in 1997, and fled to Zhuhai under the pseudonym Chen Guohui. He thought he could start over, but the financial crisis pushed him into a desperate situation. With forty-seven unemployed workers, he relied on repairing old arcade machi
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