  the corruptor is a 1999 american action thriller film directed by james foley, starring chow yun-fat and mark wahlberg. the film was released in the united states on march 5, 1999. ==plot== new york city police department lieutenant nick chen (chow) is head of the asian gang unit. his job is to keep the peace in chinatown from a turf war that has broken out between the triads and the fukienese dragons, a problem complicated by the fact that he is also an informant for the tongs under "uncle" benny chan (chan) and his lieutenant henry lee (young). after a bombing in downtown chinatown in broad daylight, chen is reluctantly teamed up with danny wallace (wahlberg), who is unaware of this situation. wallace was also secretly tasked by internal affairs to monitor chen for corruption. danny lied to chen and the asian gang unit by claiming that he took the job as a means to gain his detective shield the fastest. during a police raid on a fukienese whorehouse, chen saves danny's life. danny, knowing that his life is now in the hands of chen, then promptly initiates a bust on a drug operation, not knowing that there was an undercover fbi agent as well. after being berated by the fbi for interfering one of their ongoing investigations, danny is introduced to henry. henry then discusses the potential value of having another cop in the asian gang unit on the tong payroll, which uncle benny allows. benny is able to lure danny into working for him by tipping him off to an underground prostitution ring. danny, after stopping the operation, is then given a commendation for valor, but chen now suspects that danny, like him, is working for the tongs. eventually, wallace begins to work for henry lee of the tongs after discovering that chen has been doing the same. they inadvertently cross paths while doing this, throwing their initial trust for each other out the window as well as putting the intentions of henry lee into question. chen hates the fukienese with a passio
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