The White Storm (Sou Duk /Saodu) by Benny Chan will close the 8th Rome Film Festival. The new film by the award-winning Chinese director, producer, and screenwriter, “student” of Johnnie To Kei-Feung and Tsui Hark, a master of action movies and the author of films such as Big Bullet and New Police Story (in which he directed Jackie Chan), will be presented Out of Competitionin its world premiere screening. With The White Storm (Sou Duk/Saodu), Benny Chan, now considered a veritable icon of the new action movie from Hong Kong, directs the first “international” detective story produced in China: the film is in fact the most spectacular high-budget film produced in China in 2013.
Throughout his twenty-year career and starting with his debut film, A Moment of Romance(Tin joek jau cing, 1990) starring Andy Lau, one of the biggest stars in Hong Kong, Benny Chan continues to push the boundaries of action movies. His later collaboration with Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop (with which he filmed The Magic Crane / Xin xian he shen zhen) and his box-office hit Big Bullet (Chung fung dui liu feng gaai tau),which won him the nomination as Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards, make him one of the best-loved filmmakers of his generation. Shortly thereafter he forged one of the most successful partnerships in Asian film, with the most famous of Chinese action-movie stars Jackie Chan, a partnership which began in 1998 with Jackie Chan’s Who Am I? (Wo shi shei, 1998) and continued through 2011 with Shaolin (Xin shao lin si, 2011). In the film that will close the 2013 Festival, Chan directs three of the most famous actors in Chinese cinema: Sean Lau, winner of several prizes at the Hong Kong Film Awards, a versatile actor who has starred in detective stories (Full Alert / Go do gaai bei), dramatic films (C’est la vie, mon chéri / Xin buliao qing)and comedies (La Brassiere / Chuet sai hiu bra); Louis Koo, an esteemed television actor, the testimonial of famous advertising campaigns, who starred in two episodes ofElection (Hak se wui) by Johnnie To, both presented at the Cannes Film Festival; Nick Cheung, a film and television actor, the award-winning star of Beast Stalker (Ching yan) by Dante Lam.
SYNOPSIS
THE WHITE STORM (SOU DUK /SAODU) by Benny Chan, China, Hong Kong, 2013, 140’
Cast: Sean Lau, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Yuan Quan, Lo Hoi Pang
Tim (played by Sean Lau) is the ambitious chief inspector of the narcotics bureau, who puts his career above all else. Chao (played by Louis Koo) is a policeman who works undercover, in the depths of Hong Kong’s illegal trafficking. Wai (played by Nick Cheung) is Tim’s loyal subordinate who hopes, some day, to earn the respect of others. The three are life-long friends, but a new mission will put their brotherly bond in danger. In fact, the leader of the Chao gang, Hak Tsai is about to make the biggest drug deal in his criminal career with the notorious Eight-Faced Buddha, South East Asia’s most powerful and feared “drug lord”. Tim is convinced that capturing the Eight-Faced Buddha could be a pivotal moment for his career, while Chao reluctantly agrees to leave Hong Kong and go undercover to infiltrate Hak Tsai’s gang: this will be his last mission before beginning a new life with his pregnant girlfriend. Wai, whose girlfriend has just left him, simply wants to restore his confidence in himself and achieve success. The mission ends in a showdown in which Buddha gets the upper hand and forces Tim to choose which of his two friends will live. With great anguish, Tim chooses Chao and Wai is pushed off the cliff. Five years later, Buddha’s name resurfaces in Hong Kong. Tim and Chao reunite to take revenge, but find that Wai is still alive and involved in a dangerous plot. The three friends will once again have to sacrifice their friendship…

Benny Chan
He was born in Hong Kong in 1969. His career as a director began in 1990 when he directed his first film A Moment of Romance (Tin joek jau cing) produced by Johnnie To Kei-Feung with a cast of stars featuring the award-winning actor Andy Lau along with Jacklyn Wu and Ng Man-tat (who won Best Supporting Actor at the Hong Kong Film Awards). In 1993, with Tsui Hark’s Film Workshop, he directed The Magic Crane (Xin xian he shen zhen), and in 1996 made Big Bullet (Chung fung dui liu feng gaai tau) which won him a nomination for Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards. It also revealed him to Jackie Chan, whom he directed in Jackie Chan’s Who Am I? (Wo shi shei),one of the last films the great actor shot in Hong Kong, and one of the first he made entirely in English. The successful partnership with Jackie Chan continued over the years, leading to some of the most memorable classics of action movies, all of which won awards at the major Asian festivals: New Police Story (Xin jingcha gushi, 2004), Rob-B-Hood (Bobui gaiwak, 2006) and Shaolin (Xin shao lin si, 2011). Benny Chan’s lengthy filmography also features Divergence (Saamchahau, 2005), Connected (Bochi tungwah, 2008), both award winners at the Hong Kong Film Awards, and Invisible Target (Naam yi boon sik, 2007).

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