72 minutes of government incompetence that'll make you side-eye every bureaucrat forever.
From a rat infestation in the slums, a fast-spreading virus grips Hong Kong, inducing panic when the government is slow to react. Inspired by Albert Camus’s The Plague.
Direction
Lung Kong's cramped framing turns rooms into pressure cookers.
Acting
Kenneth Tsang's bureaucratic meltdown is exquisite slow-burn rage.
Writing
Camus adaptation that feels ripped from 2020 headlines.
Director
Patrick Lung Kong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot during 1967 Hong Kong riots, the film's paranoia mirrored real civil unrest—Lung Kong reportedly had to dodge actual tear gas between takes.
Banned in British-colonial Hong Kong for 'political sensitivity,' it vanished for decades until a 2013 restoration revealed what censors feared: a population learning officials won't save them.
No ratings yet
Sign in to join the discussion — comments are spoiler-gated to your watch progress.
Discussion starters
HK
