The '75 Hang Seng heist: $7 million, zero chill, maximum Cantonese chaos.
Based on a true story, and recreated from the personal account of one of the robbers, the film follows an immigrant from mainland China in 1975 as he works with a team to plan to rob an armored car carrying seven million dollars from the Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong.
Production
Period-perfect 1975 Hong Kong recreation on tiny budget.
Practical Effects
Pre-CGI heist staging, all practical tension.
Director
Hoh Cheuk-Wing
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the actual robbers consulted on the film, making this perhaps cinema's most compromised 'true story'—he got creative control of his own mythology.
Shot during Hong Kong's 1991 Handover anxiety, the 1975 colonial setting carries accidental political weight—desperate mainlanders, British-controlled wealth, escape as the only option.
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