Life has not been kind to drinking buddies Sam, Fai, and Mok as they struggle to make ends meet, until one stormy evening when a mysterious old man appears before them in a bar with a 'get rich quick' scheme: an ancient treasure buried under a high-security government building.
Direction
Three auteurs sabotaging each other's aesthetic in real time
Cinematography
Tsui Hark's fever-dream lighting saves the middle act
Acting
Simon Yam's doomed everyman anchors the chaos
Director
Johnnie To
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The directors literally shot their segments sequentially without seeing each other's dailies, explaining the jarring tonal shifts.
This was Hong Kong's answer to 'Three Extremes' — a flex of the industry's directorial bench depth before the 2008 market crash.
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