

Shanghai Vice
1999-02-28 · 50 min / episode · ★ 8.0
In a city where heroin dealing can bring the death sentence, drug rings mean business…and so do the police. The activities of the city’s vice squad – including high-level sting operations and the interrogations of murder suspects and drug runners - are at the heart of the stories.
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