Prison on Fire – Life Sentence
Prison on Fire – Life Sentence is a 2001 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Edmond Yuen and starring Ben Wong, Iris Wong, Tommy Wong, William Ho, Lee Wai-kei, Chapman To and Bill Lung. Despite the title, this film is not related to the 1987 film Prison on Fire and its 1991 sequel.
Plot
A group of prisoners were doing a variety of activities in the courtyard. Big Fool and Crazy Bill are playing basketball and Bill kicks the ball towards Tung, who kicks it away. Bill felt humiliated by it and stars a fight with Tung where Tung ends out hospitalized. During hospitalization, Tung thinks about the time when his family moved to another house and opened a food stall nearby. However, their stall was burnt by triad leader Sing, who constantly bullies Tung's family and also raped Tung's girlfriend, Sau. Unable to tolerate Sing's bullying, Tung kills Sing by chopping him to death, which leads Tung to being imprisoned.Cast
- Ben Wong as Ho Sun-tung
- Iris Wong as Sau
- Tommy Wong as Crazy Bill
- William Ho as Big Fool
- Lee Wai-kei
- Chapman To
- Bill Lung as Brother Sing
- Wong Hok-lam
- Tony Chiu