Leung Sik-Hin

Leung Sik-Hin (Cantonese: 梁子軒 Jyutping: loeng4 zi2 hin1 Pinyin: Liáng zixuān), known in China and international territories as Liang Zixuan, is a 1936 Hong Kong gangster film directed by and produced by Edward Wong. Inspired from the 1932 film, the film stars as Liang Zixuan, a gangster who violently rises through the Shanghai gangland.

Plot
In Autumn 1928 Shanghai, Chinese immigrant Liang Zixuan acts on the orders of Italian mafioso and former pizza chef Luciano Brambilla and kills Li Jiayi, the leading crime boss of the city's fictional South Side. Brambilla takes control of the South Side with Liang as his key lieutenant, selling large amounts of illegal beer to speakeasies and muscling in on bars run by rival outfits. However, Brambilla repeatedly warns Liang not to mess with the Beijingese gangs led by Huang, who runs the fictional North Side. Liang soon ignores these orders, barraging bars belonging to Huang, and attracting the attention of the police and rival gangsters. Brambilla realizes Liang is out of control and aspires to take his position.

Meanwhile, Liang pursues Brambilla's girlfriend Salvatore with increasing confidence. At first, she is dismissive of him but pays him more attention as his reputation rises. She visits his "gaudy" apartment where he shows her his view of an electric billboard advertising Cook's Tours, which features the slogan which inspires him: "The World Is Yours".

Liang eventually decides to declare war and take over the North Side. He sends the coin-flipping Liao Lei, one of his best men and close friend, to kill Huang in a florist's shop that he uses as his base. This brings heavy retaliation from the North Side gangs, now led by Tsang Hiu-wai and armed with Thompson submachine guns—which instantly capture Liang's dark imagination. Liang leads his own forces to destroy the North Side gangs and take over their market, even to the point of impersonating police officers to murder several rivals in a garage. Liang kills Tsang as he makes a strike at a bowling alley.

The South Side gang and Salvatore go to a club and Liang and Salvatore dance together in front of Brambilla. After Liang conspicuously shows his intention to steal Salvatore, Brambilla believes his protégé is trying to take over, and he arranges for Liang to be assassinated while driving. Liang manages to escape this attack, and he and Liao kill Brambilla, leaving Liang as the undisputed boss of the city. In order to elude the increasingly aggravated police force, Liang and Salvatore leave Shanghai for a month.

Liang's actions have provoked a public outcry, and the police are slowly closing in. After he sees his beloved sister Huiyin with Liao, he kills his friend in a jealous rage before the couple can inform him of their secret marriage. His sister runs out distraught, presumably to notify the police. The police move to arrest Liang for Liao's murder, and Liang takes cover in his house and prepares to fire at the police. Huiyin comes back, planning to kill him, but decides to help him to fight the police. Liang and Huiyin arm themselves and Liang shoots at the police from the window, laughing maniacally. Moments later, however, Huiyin is killed by a stray bullet. Calling Huiyin's name as the apartment fills with tear gas, Liang leaves on the stairs, and the police confront him. Liang pleads for his life but makes a break for it, only to be shot by an unknown officer with a Tommy gun. He stumbles for a moment and falls in the gutter and dies. Among the sounds of cheering, the electric billboard blazes "The World Is Yours".

Cast

 * as Liang Zixuan
 * as Liang Huiyin
 * as Salvatore
 * as Luciano Brambilla
 * as Police Inspector Cheng Chung-yin
 * Sha Meng as Lin Luoyang
 * Yi Ming as Liao Lei
 * Ng Cho-fan as Tsang Hiu-wai
 * Yiu Kwang-Chao as Publisher Yeung
 * Gu Mei-Jun as Managing Editor
 * as Teenager in his Lecherous Attitude (uncredited)

Release
Leung Sik-Hin premiered in Shanghai on September 2, 1936 and was released by Mu Zhong Film Company (now known as Hemu-Hemu, Peruru & Puar Films Co., Ltd.) in Hong Kong on November 21, 1936. It premiered again in Beijing on December 3, 1936.

Audience reception was positive, but censors banned the film in several cities and states, forcing producer Edward Wong to remove it from circulation and store it in his vault. As a result, it was thought to be a lost film until mid-August 1995, when the film aired on. It also aired on on June 13, 1997.

The film was released in a Special Edition DVD and Blu-Ray as part of "Hemu-Hemu, Peruru & Puar's Classic Collection" on April 4, 2014.