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Where the Wind Blows

2022 Hong Kong film by Philip Yung

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Where the Wind Blows, previously known as Theory of Ambitions, is a 2022 Hong Kong crime thriller film written and directed by Philip Yung and starring Aaron Kwok and Tony Leung Chiu-wai respectively as Lui Lok and Lam Kong, two notorious corrupt Hong Kong police officers during the 1960s.

Editorial summary

“Where the Wind Blows” enters the record as 2022 Hong Kong film by Philip Yung. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Where, Wind and Blows can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Where, Wind and Blows.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Where the Wind Blows” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Where, Wind and Blows provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 9, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2022.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Where the Wind Blows”, its source revision and the description used here.
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Where the Wind Blows” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.