Behind the Shadows (film)
2025 Hong Kong film
Behind the Shadows is a 2025 Hong Kong action thriller film directed by Jonathan Li and Choy Man-yu and starring Louis Koo, Chrissie Chau and Liu Kuan-ting. Koo plays a private detective who is investigating a rape and murder case involving adultery.
Production for the film began in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in September 2023. The film was theatrically released on 12 June 2025 in Hong Kong.
Plot
Au Yeung Wai Yip is a private detective from Hong Kong in Malaysia, who is best known for being able to locate cheating partners or missing people. He is tasked to find 3 women from 3 different clients suspecting their partners of infidelity, a man named Kek who's seeing Au Yeung's wife Kuang Weng Sam suspecting her of not telling him she has a husband, a man named Sheo whose fiance Ong Kah Min has run off after an argument between them resulting in the former not being able to reach the latter, and a case from his gangster friend Clawy to investigate the infidelity of a gang leader Maraca's girl, Betty.
Meanwhile, Detective Chen Meng is investigating the death of a woman, Li Yoke Na, who was killed in an abandoned house. The case makes him fall ill and results in him landing in a hospital, where his wife is revealed to be hospitalized at. When he returns to work, he and his team learn that there's a witness who has CCTV footage of the night Li was murdered at the scene, which is revealed to be Ong Kah Min. One night, Au Yeung finds Ong Kah Min's address in Nantang and sees her talking to a mysterious man who is wearing all black clothing.
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