On the Chinese big screen, Andy Lau and Tony Leung are considered old partners.

In 1981, 20-year-old Andy Lau joined TVB’s artist training class. In 1982, Tony Leung, also 20 years old, was admitted to TVB's artist training class.

Due to their outstanding performance in the training class, Liu and Liang began to be appreciated by TVB executives and frequently appeared on the Hong Kong drama screen. The 1984 version of "The Deer and the Cauldron" and the 1985 version of "The Yang Family" have also become classics of Hong Kong dramas co-produced by Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai.

With the steady development of their acting careers, Tony Leung and Andy Lau successively entered the big screen of Hong Kong films in the late 1980s.

And works such as "Five Tigers Break Up", "Heroes of Central", "Days of Being Wild", "The Banquet of the Rich", "The Fighting Horse" and other works also record the time and time again of Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai. Screen collaboration.

In the mid-1990s, Tony Leung followed Wong Kar-wai and won one trophy after another. The partnership between Andy Lau and Wang Jing has also been widely praised by market audiences.

Because they chose different development directions, the film collaboration between Liang and Liu also temporarily came to an end at this time.

In 2002, Liu Weiqiang, Mak Siu-fai and Zhuang Wenqiang teamed up to create the classic police film "Infernal Affairs".

In this work, the screen partners Andy Lau and Tony Leung reunite again, presenting wonderful acting collisions one after another.

After "Infernal Affairs", Andy Lau and Tony Leung went their separate ways and never collaborated again. Many movie fans also believe that this "Infernal Affairs" is the last time that the two best actors Liu and Liang will share the same screen.

However, what people did not expect was that at the 2021 "Emperor Films New Film Press Conference", Director Chong Man-keung released news about the filming of the new film "Goldfinger" and also said: Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai will serve as The two male protagonists of the film.

As the two male protagonists of the film, Andy Lau and Tony Leung also appeared at this press conference.

The news that "Andy Lau and Tony Leung are collaborating again after 18 years in "Infernal Affairs"" has become a hot topic among many movie fans.

At the press conference, director Zhuang Wenqiang gave a brief introduction to the story of the movie "Goldfinger".

Although the film introduction given by director Zhuang Wenqiang is very limited, it still allows us to find the prototype of the film's story - the "Jianing Group Case" that occurred in 1983.

This "Jianing Group Case" has been compared with many other cases such as the "Three Wolves Case" and the "Rainy Night Butcher Case" among the public, and is known as one of the "Top Ten Strange Cases in Hong Kong".

Bringing real cases to the big screen and adapting them into public case movies has always been the strength of Hong Kong film producers.

However, what is bizarre is that the other nine cases in the "Top Ten Strange Cases" have all been adapted into movies by Hong Kong film directors. Only this "Jianing Group Case" has not been photographed since the incident in 1983.

"Goldfinger" directed by Zhuang Wenqiang is also the first film about the "Jianing Group Case".

The reason why no one dared to film this "Jianing Group Case" for many years is closely related to the case itself.

In 1972, businessman Chen Songqing came to Hong Kong from Singapore. After spying on Hong Kong's rapidly developing financial situation, Chen Songqing established a number of "shell companies" in Hong Kong and used these "shell institutions" to solicit loans and engage in financing.

In 1979, Chen Songqing borrowed a large amount of funds from "Malaysian Yumin Finance" and used these funds to acquire an already listed company and renamed it "Jianing Group".

After that, he used the "shell company" and "Jianing Group" under his name to conduct internal operations and drive up the stock price.

In the early 1980s, the share price of "Jianing Group" soared, and Chen Songqing became a "stock market myth" at that time.

However, China and Britain held peace talks on the "future of Hong Kong" in 1982. As the peace talks unfolded, many foreign businessmen began to withdraw capital from Hong Kong, which also directly affected the Hong Kong stock market.

Due to the turmoil in the stock market, the internal operational problems of "Jianing Group" have also begun to emerge. In October 1983, Chen Songqing was arrested, and the "Jianing Group Case" officially broke out.

After Chen Songqing was arrested, "Jianing Group" was found to be involved in a financial fraud of HK$10 billion.

During the step-by-step investigation of the case, Ibachan, the financial director of "Malaysian Yumin Finance" who was responsible for the loans of "Jianing Group", was "murdered".

Wen Shubao, the lawyer responsible for the financial issues of "Jianing Group", also died mysteriously during the investigation. Judge Bai Jia, who was in charge of hearing the "Jianing Group Case", also died in an accident.

These "bizarre deaths" seemed to be related to the "Jianing Group Case", but due to insufficient evidence, no effective prosecution was ultimately possible.

The court has made judgments on the "Jianing Group Case" many times, and Chen Songqing has also appealed against the judgment results many times. After repeated tug-of-war between the two sides, the "Jianing Group Case" was officially settled in 1994.

In the end, Chen Songqing only admitted the amount of 280 million involved and was sentenced to three years in prison. "Legal Commissioner" Hu Lida was sentenced to eight years in prison for accepting bribes and "facilitating" the internal operations of the "Jianing Group".

With the imprisonment of Chen and Hu, the "Jianing Group Case" has come to an end.

Due to the fact that some "personnel related to the case" encountered "bizarre accidents" during the investigation of the case, many Hong Kong filmmakers were cautious when creating their films.

Perhaps out of concern for their own safety, many strange case movies have been put on the big screen in Hong Kong movies, but no one has dared to film the "Jianing Group Case" for many years.

This time, "Emperor Group" launched the movie "Goldfinger". The bizarre story prototype has already added a lot of gimmicks to the film. And the reunion of Zhuang Wenqiang, Andy Lau and Tony Leung makes people full of expectations.

Zhuang Wenqiang, who is a screenwriter, has left many wonderful film works on the Chinese big screen.

In his early years, as a screenwriter, he created many works such as the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, "Daisy", and "Scarred City". After transforming into a director, he went on to film "The Overheard" trilogy, "Wushuang" and other great films.

Having created so many police and gangster classics, this time Zhuang Wenqiang writes and directs "Goldfinger". I believe that the performance will not disappoint the audience.

And Andy Lau and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the two best actors, will be in the same frame again, which will naturally add many highlights to the movie.

After 2008, more and more Hong Kong film directors chose to go north. However, the market performance of each "co-production film" was not as good as that of the other, which made movie fans sigh: The once glorious Hong Kong film era has been Gone and never returned.

However, in recent years, with the efforts of many Hong Kong film directors, the glory of Hong Kong films in the past has begun to bloom on the big screen of "co-productions".

2017's "Chasing the Dragon", 2018's "Warriors", and 2020's "Bomb Disposer 2" have all achieved good market response.

I believe that on the big screen in the future, this "Goldfinger" will also allow us to once again feel the long-lost "glory of Hong Kong films".