The Prince of Temple Street (1992): Cast & Plot

Triad leader Chiu, Ray Lui, calls a meeting on Temple Street to find someone willing to adopt an abandoned male infant he found there. During the gathering, the baby’s cries prove relentless, and it’s eventually passed into the arms of a servant. This servant, Tong Chau-sui, Ng Man-Tat, is chosen as the adoptive father, while the infant’s care is entrusted to Phoenix, the woman who claims to have abandoned the child’s mother on the very same day twelve was left behind. Phoenix, Deanie Yip Tak-Han, treats the infant as her own, shaping a complex family dynamic from the outset. The child receives the name Tong Sap-yee (lit. “Tong Twelve”), and he is famously known around Temple Street as Prince Twelve, a nickname that echoes through the neighborhood and beyond.