All About Ah Long

Chow Yun Fat, in one of the most challenging roles of his career, plays professional biker Yeung Ah Long: a man whose disillusionment with life leads him down the path of casual infidelity, alcoholism and the altogether unforgivable practice of domestic violence (he beats up his girlfriend who's expecting a child).

Yeung gets his celestial come-uppance when he's badly injured in a motorcycle crash whilst trying to outrun the cops, Yeung Ah Long gets sent to prison, learns that he'll no longer be able to race bikes and that his girlfriend Sylvia 'PorPor' Poon (Chang) has moved to the States...

Yeung, who used to be a contender in the motorcycle circuits, is reduced to driving a truck on a quarried building site, he's content with being a nobody, up until he discovers that his ex-girlfriend had a child by him, and that the kid has been in an orphanage for the past 10 years, Yeung seeks out his son in a veiled attempt to (excuse the pun) kick-start his long overdue redemption.

But this ain't Capra folks and though Yeung has his son, who is more important than anything, he now has to try and raise him back in the wretched slums of colonial Hong Kong.

All About Ah Long's original, eastern title is "You jian A Lang"