A Hong Kong cop is struggling for his survival in the underground world, a place filled with criminals and low life people like moss in rotting hell.
Cinematography
Sewer-level camera work that makes you smell the rot.
Acting
Shawn Yue's hollow-eyed descent is quietly devastating.
Production
Sets so authentically grimy you'll need a shower after.
Director
Derek Kwok Chi-Kin
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Derek Kwok shot in actual condemned Hong Kong tenements scheduled for demolition, capturing a vanishing underclass reality.
Released during the 2008 financial crisis, its depiction of economic desperation resonated with Hong Kong's working poor in ways critics initially missed.
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