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Dragon Boys is a CBC Television (CBC) miniseries starring Eric Tsang, Byron Mann, Lawrence Chou, Tzi Ma, Lauren Lee Smith, Steph Song, Darryl Quon, Christina Ma, Jean Yoon, Simon Wong and Chang Tseng. It aired on CBC on January 7 and 8 of 2007.

The film focuses on several stories about Asian Canadian organized gangs, set mostly in Vancouver Canada. One of them involves an Asian Canadian Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) officer, Tommy Jiang (played by Mann), who is seeking to bring down two Asian gangsters named Willie the Duck and Movie Star (played by Tsang and Chou, respectively), in the process risking losing everything, including his marriage, as he goes deeper into the criminal organization. Eventually, the final showdown occurs between Movie Star and Jiang. Another story focuses on the Wahs, an immigrant family from Hong Kong. The parents in that family (played by real life husband and wife Tzi Ma and Christina Ma) are concerned about their son Jason (played by Wong), who is constantly the victim of racial bullying. Jason soon receives help, but from a Chinese Canadian youth with gang connections. They attempt a robbery but fail, and Jason is forced to flee for his life while his father Henry tries to save him. as means of escape. In the conclusion of all three stories, Henry Wah receives a gun from Uncle Three later revealed to be his brother. Henry finds, confronts and berates Movie Star but finds himself unwilling to kill Movie Star as it won't make him feel any better. Jiang's investigations and frequent confrontations with Movie Star end up getting him framed and suspended from the RCMP, who receive a false complaint that Jiang was sleeping with a prostitute and had abused her. Jiang, who spends most of his time trying to catch and arrest Movie Star, who ordered a home invasion finally catches a confession from Movie Star, who admits to ordering of a home invasion which belonged to a cleaning lady who worked for Belinda Lok, Belinda who was sent the recording confronts and murders Movie Star after being handed over by Fox Boy to Belinda. Jason who was on the run from being involved manages to finally reunite with his family, as his parents scare off the triad teens who were attempting to silence him. Sorrows a Triad enforcer, protects Chavy Pahn from Fat Ass and presumably kills him and removes Fat Ass's testicles as proof to Chavy has nothing to fear anymore but Chavy herself learns to become stronger and presumably takes Belinda's position however her relationship with Sorrows remains unclear. Willie Lok, Uncle Three and Au's older brother Lincoln Au discuss a drug deal but its secretly being tape recorded by the RCMP implying that the police will soon close in on them soon, thanks to Belinda who Jiang blackmails into recording their conversation to avoid jail time for murdering Movie Star. Jiang finally gets to see his family again but its left ambiguous if his wife will accept him again.

Before filming for the miniseries began, Mann spent several weeks with Richmond's RCMP detectives to prepare for the role. Besides that, a year was spent researching Asian Canadian gangs in the Vancouver area, in cooperation with the RCMP. The writers have already started writing the script, and the production is hoping to start filming in the fall of 2007. However, the viewership numbers fell short of expectations on the first night, with approximately 383,000 viewers. It did slightly better on the finale the next night, with 391,000 viewers.

Before the miniseries aired, there was concern from the Chinese Canadian community about possible backlash from other communities; the villains in the miniseries are predominantly Asian Canadian, leading to possibly racist implications. Some Chinese Canadian film and television personnel even threatened to boycott the miniseries. This led to the producers hiring several prominent Asian Canadians in the community to look over the script to filter out what could be insulting. and Langley, British Columbia area, but takes place in Richmond, a city famous for its Golden Village Asian district on No. 3 Road, as well as its large Asian community which makes up 60 percent of the city's population. Some scenes were shot at one of the malls within the Golden Village, Parker Place. Because of the area's high concentration of Asian Canadians, Eric Tsang (a very well known actor in Hong Kong films) was mobbed by fans who recognized him. Partly due to the setting of the miniseries, some of the songs on the series' soundtrack were performed by Asian Canadian musicians from Richmond.