Directed by:
Soi Cheang Pou-soiCinematography:
Siu-keung JengComposer:
Kenji KawaiCast:
Gordon Lam, Cya Liu, Mason Lee, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Fish Liew, Hugo Ng, Sammy Sum, Hanna Chan, Kumer So, Iris Lam, Jerry Leung, Zodiac Ka-Chun Law (more)Plots(1)
Rookie policeman Will Ren and his partner, the veteran cop Cham Lau, are pursuing an obsessive and especially brutal murderer of women. To lure this “hand-fetish” ripper, they use the criminal Wong To, who needs to atone for causing an accident involving Cham’s family, as bait. But this young woman is both unpredictable and insubordinate. Surrounded by ever more insane bouts of violence and increasingly in danger of falling victim to the bestial serial killer herself, she fights the traumas of the slums by her own means. The ultra-long showdown really packs a punch: if you don’t shudder, you’ll scream. Alongside the great cast, the trademarks of Hong Kong genre filmmaker Soi Cheang (Dog Bite Dog) include his brilliantly cool observation of well-honed cop rituals – at times condensed into a one-shot-per-second montage, at others edited at a more leisurely pace – as well as close-ups of those struggling to survive amid the city’s trash heaps. Making use of monochrome, “hidden object” aesthetics, the film probes the boundaries of the bearable, traversing them experimentally with excesses of violence, subtle gender-bending and tender gestures in a world that has lost its humanity. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Gordon Lam
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Ip Man (2008)
Infernal Affairs (2002)
A Simple Life (2011)
Mason Lee
USA
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
The Wedding Banquet (1993)
Duckweed (2017)
Hiroyuki Ikeuchi
Japan
Best movies:
Ip Man (2008)
Romantic Prelude (2009)
Hazard (2005)
Fish Liew
Malaysia
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)
Lazy Hazy Crazy (2015)
Hugo Ng
Singapore
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
The White Storm (2013)
Daughter of Darkness (1993)
Sammy Sum
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
Perfect Wedding (2010)
The Man from Macau (2014)
Hanna Chan
Hong Kong
Jerry Leung
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Infernal Affairs (2002)
New Police Story (2004)
Limbo (2021)
Zodiac Ka-Chun Law
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
Raging Fire (2021)
The Brink (2017)
Peter Sang-hin Lee
Best movies:
Zero to Hero (2021)
Limbo (2021)
The Brink (2017)
Kam-Chu Yu
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Still Human (2018)
Limbo (2021)
Wing-fu Cheung
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
One Nite in Mongkok (2004)
Connected (2008)
Peter Bei-Dak Chan
Best movies:
Limbo (2021)
Ten Years (2015)
Raging Fire (2021)