For decades, the quintessential image of a Hong Kong big-screen detective was defined by a familiar face sporting signature braces and a gun holster: Danny Lee Sau-yin.
The actor and filmmaker achieved international fame playing the policeman who bonds with Chow Yun-fat’s good-hearted hitman in John Woo Yu-sum’s legendary action epic The Killer (1989), and he often feels typecast by his success in Woo’s smash hit.
Lee built a career playing police officers – ultimately donning the uniform across dozens of his many films – but The Killer and his turn as a gang boss in Ringo Lam Ling-tung’s 1987 classic City on Fire remain his most famous works.
Yet, Lee put in his most nuanced performance in a lesser-seen project: 1984’s Law with Two Phases (or Law with Two Faces), which he also co-wrote and directed. Playing a conflicted detective trying desperately to do the right thing, Lee was named best actor at both the 1984 Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan and the 1985 Hong Kong Film Awards.
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