In one of the darkest and diverse cultural part in the city, there is a minority group who lives in the place where it is full of despair and frustration. Their desperate living comprises illegal gambling, prostitution as well as drug-dealing. This chaotic region is unique within the city.
Direction
Yau's unglamorous handheld realism.
Acting
Gordon Lam's quietly simmering desperation.
Director
Herman Yau
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Herman Yau shot this between bigger commercial projects, reportedly completing principal photography in under two weeks on location in actual problem districts.
The film captures Hong Kong's 2008 economic anxiety post-handover, when marginalized communities felt increasingly abandoned by both British and Chinese systems.
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