The Prince of Temple Street

The Prince of Temple Street

DVD cover
Traditional 廟街十二少
Simplified 庙街十二少
Mandarin Miào Jiē Shí Èr Shǎo
Cantonese Miu6 Gaai1 Sap6 Ji4 Siu3
Directed by Jeffrey Chiang
Produced by Liu Kin-fat
Screenplay by Yuen Sai-man
Lai Man-cheuk
Starring Andy Lau
Joey Wong
Deanie Ip
Ng Man-tat
Music by Dominic Chow
Cinematography Ardy Lam
Edited by Ma Chung-yiu
Mui Tung-lit
Production
company
Cheung Wang Channel Film & Video
Wing Fat Film Production
Distributed by Golden Princess Amusement
Release dates
 20 August 1992 (1992-08-20)
Running time
 95 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese
Box office HK$12,620,570

The Prince of Temple Street is a 1992 Hong Kong crime drama film directed by Jeffrey Chiang and starring Andy Lau, Joey Wong, Deanie Ip and Ng Man-tat. Aside of portraying the titular protagonist in the film, Lau also briefly reprises his role as "Lee Rock", the real life-inspired protagonist from the film series of the same name.

Plot

Triad leader Chiu (Ray Lui) calls up a meeting hoping to find someone willing to adopt an abandoned male infant he picked up in Temple Street. During the meeting, nobody was able to stop the infant from crying until it was passed to a servant's arms. He is Tong Chau-sui (Ng Man-tat), who is chosen as the adoptive father of the infant. Because there were twelve people in the meeting and everyone were the infant's godparents, Chiu names the infant Tong Sap-yee (lit. "Tong Twelve"), whom everyone calls as "Prince Twelve".

On the surface, Prince Twelve (Andy Lau) seems like a favored person, but down his heart, he is lonelier than everyone else. His adoptive father, Chau-sui, is a worker of a mahjong house in Temple Street while his adoptive mother, Phoenix (Deanie Ip), is an ex-prostitute who claims to have abandoned his son in Temple Street on the same day Twelve was abandoned, and thus, treats Prince Twelve as her biological son.

The renowned Prince Twelve has a rival named Lap Ling (Chin Ho), who is the leader of the Kwoon Chung Gang and a person more terrible than a devil. One day, Prince Twelve meets a girl who came preaching at Temple Street named Teresa (Joey Wong). From the first moment he looked at her, he fell in love with her.

Cast

Theme song

Box office

The film grossed HK$12,620,570 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 20 August to 3 September 1992 in Hong Kong.

See also

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