Ex-crime fighter lionized for playing one in movie
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April 15, 2013, Monday
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A former graft-buster won the best new performer prize at the Hong Kong Film Awards for a role reprising his corruption-fighting persona in a police thriller, which swept the awards.
"Cold War" took nine awards, including best film, best actor and best director, with Alex Tsui, former Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption deputy director of operations in his first film role.
"This award has given me very strong feelings," Tsui, who was sacked by the ICAC 20 years ago and who played the organization's commissioner in the film, said onstage as he received his award on Saturday.
"I have been acting well as a civil servant for 28 years, but the British did not like it," he added.
Tsui was fired in 1993, four years before Britain returned Hong Kong to China's sovereignty.
The details behind Tsui's departure from the ICAC remain unclear, however.
In "Cold War," veteran Hong Kong star Tony Leung Ka-fai plays a deputy police commissioner vying for power with a fellow senior officer played by actor Aaron Kwok over an operation to rescue five kidnapped officers in the film.
The annual Hong Kong Film Awards - in its 32nd edition this year - is considered to be the city's equivalent to the Oscars.
"Cold War" took nine awards, including best film, best actor and best director, with Alex Tsui, former Hong Kong Independent Commission Against Corruption deputy director of operations in his first film role.
"This award has given me very strong feelings," Tsui, who was sacked by the ICAC 20 years ago and who played the organization's commissioner in the film, said onstage as he received his award on Saturday.
"I have been acting well as a civil servant for 28 years, but the British did not like it," he added.
Tsui was fired in 1993, four years before Britain returned Hong Kong to China's sovereignty.
The details behind Tsui's departure from the ICAC remain unclear, however.
In "Cold War," veteran Hong Kong star Tony Leung Ka-fai plays a deputy police commissioner vying for power with a fellow senior officer played by actor Aaron Kwok over an operation to rescue five kidnapped officers in the film.
The annual Hong Kong Film Awards - in its 32nd edition this year - is considered to be the city's equivalent to the Oscars.
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