The Departed - 2006 / Infernal Affairs - 2004

I have included both the Cantonese original and the American remake of this story. Both are very good and worth the viewing.

Inspired by Infernal Affairs (below) Martin Scorsese's THE DEPARTED brings together an all star cast and a compelling story about loyalty, honor, betrayal to earn him the Best Picture as well as Best Director awards at the 2007 Academy Awards. The only foreign remake ever to win.

While an undercover cop (Leonardo DiCaprio) curries favor with the mob kingpin (Jack Nicholson), a career criminal (Matt Damon) rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.





Veteran cop Chan Wing Yan (Tony Leung) goes undercover to expose the detective who's been leaking information to the criminal underworld; but the high-ranking mole (Andy Lau), whose identity Chan has yet to reveal, also has no idea who the internal investigator is. The men soon find themselves locked in a dangerous game of cat and mouse.

The Cantonese version is the first film of a trilogy. The second of the three being a prequel to the first and often argued as the better of the two.