85 - Anita Mui: The Celebrity Who Started a Deadly Gang War

In the late 1980s and the early 1990s, Hong Kong's movie industry was mostly funded and run by the city's Triads. They often threatened actors and actresses to agree to certain roles, and when one of these 'discussions' resulted in beloved actress Anita Mui being slapped through the face, it started a gang war between two of the warring gangs in Hong Kong.

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