PTU PTU has won many awards. In 2004, it won five awards at the ninth annual
Golden Bauhinia Awards. It also gave Johnnie To a Best Director award at the 2004
Hong Kong Film Awards. The film has also been featured in many film festivals. It was shown at the 2003 St. Louis International Film Festival; It has a score of 57% at RottenTomatoes.com The film focuses on the aftermath of CID Lo losing his service revolver, and the night that follows, with PTU patrols and rival criminal gangs seeing action on the street in the climax of the film. The script for the film was written by
Yip Tin Shing. The film focuses on the aftermath of an unreported beating meted out by a PTU column on a person in a back alley that was caught on a camera placed by the tourism bureau. The West Kowloon Police Station comes under investigation by an investigative committee of the police, as the film follows various members of the police with different motivations try to find the person who was beaten, to settle different goals, with a subplot of another member of the PTU having gotten into administrative trouble before the investigation began and having difficulty dealing with it. The film focuses on the retarded
Fai and his girlfriend, rather than the members of the PTU, and life in the
Temple Street district. It follows Fai, as he is physically coerced to do things by the PTU, and two rival triads, and the resultant consequences and violence that is paid in return for those actions.
Comrades in Arms Comrades in Arm was featured at the
2009 Hong Kong Film Panorama in Brussels, the
2009 New York Asian Film Festival in New York City, the 2009
Zero em Comportamento festival in Lisbon, and the 2009
Fantasia Festival in Montreal. The film deals with the rivalry of the two PTU columns commanded by May and Sam, as May has been offered a promotion, and Sam has been in the field much longer, and the actions of their commander, Ho in preferring May's column over Sam's in their PTU platoon. Their rivalry leads to disrupted interaction and communication when many PTU units are used in a search for a gang of criminals holed up on a forested mountain.
Partners Partners is the final film in the series. The film revolves around the criminal underworld of dark skinned non-Chinese, and discrimination by Chinese against the darker skinned non-Chinese, with the PTU and CID investigating a criminal plot by an Indian criminal kingpin. == Knock-offs ==