Nightfall (2012 film)
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| Traditional | 大追捕 |
| Simplified | 大追捕 |
| Mandarin | Dà Zhuī Bǔ |
| Cantonese | Daai6 Zeoi1 Bou6 |
| Directed by | Roy Chow |
| Produced by | Bill Kong Ivy Ho |
| Written by | Christine To |
| Starring |
Nick Cheung Simon Yam Janice Man Kay Tse |
| Music by | Umebayashi Shigeru |
| Cinematography | Ardy Lam Dick Tung Julian Cheng |
| Edited by | Cheung Ka-fai |
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Production
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Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd.
Edko Films Ltd. Irresistible Films |
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Running time
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108 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese Mandarin |
| Box office | HK$17,729,513 |
Nightfall is a 2012 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Roy Chow, starring Nick Cheung, Simon Yam, Janice Man and Kay Tse.
20 years ago, a 19-year-old Wong Yuen-yeung was convicted of murdering an 18-year-old Eva and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Now, after being released on parole, he starts stalking Zoe, young pianist. Zoe is the daughter of Han Tsui, a famous musician, and she resembles Eva in appearance. Han Tsui is very abusive and controlling towards Zoe. He does not allow her to have any male friends, and justifies his actions as "protecting" her from harm.
George Lam, a police inspector, is unable to accept the fact that his wife committed suicide many years ago and remains deeply troubled by it. He occupies himself with work and neglects his daughter.
One day, Han Tsui is found dead near the beach with his face completely mashed up. Lam and his team are assigned to investigate the incident. While searching for links to the victim, Lam inadvertently uncovers the murder case involving Wong and learns that Eva was actually Han Tsui's daughter. When he asks Zoe and Mrs Tsui about it, he is surprised to hear that the tragedy had been kept secret from Zoe all this while and that she never knew she had an elder sister who was murdered.
Lam tracks down Wong and questions him about the case but receives only frosty responses. The police are rather convinced that Wong is the murderer after finding out more about his background from people who knew him, and after he attacked Lam and Ying (Lam's colleague) on two separate occasions.
While the police are out on a manhunt for Wong, Lam carefully considers the entire case again and realises that Wong's behaviour appears to be for the purpose of drawing attention towards himself. Throughout that period of time, they have also visited the Tsuis a few times. Ying points out to Lam that Mrs Tsui is suspicious because every time they visited her, she is always busy cleaning the same patch of ground outside her house. They comb the area and discover traces of blood.
During interrogation, Mrs Tsui reveals the truth about Han Tsui's treatment of Zoe, and how she has remained silent all this while to protect her husband's reputation. More shockingly, she tells Lam that Zoe is, in fact, the illegitimate daughter of Eva and Eva's lover. Han Tsui had treated Eva in the same manner as he did to Zoe, and he killed Eva in anger after discovering her secret affair. Eva's lover is Wong, who rushed to the scene of Eva's death after Han Tsui killed her, and was arrested on the spot. The police investigators strongly believed that Wong tried to rape Eva and then killed her, so they resorted to violent means to make him confess to the crime. Lam, who was still a young rookie then, caught a glimpse of the investigators beating up Wong in the room. Wong eventually succumbed to the torture and admitted to murdering Eva. During his time in prison, Wong attempted suicide by piercing his throat with a pencil but failed and became mute as a consequence. He was ostracised by the other prisoners and once beat up four inmates who harassed him.
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