Veteran detective Cham works with rookie cop Will to hunt down the city's serial killer. The investigation leads them to a lair littered with dismembered female limbs, and an ex-con who killed Cham's wife and child years ago...
Acting
Gordon Lam's hollow-eyed grief is devastating.
Cinematography
Neon-soaked industrial wasteland becomes a character.
Direction
Soi Cheang never flinches from the rot.
Director
Soi Cheang
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of Hong Kong's 'neo-noir' wave reclaiming the genre from John Woo's romanticism—this is the gutter view.
Soi Cheang shot the climactic junkyard sequence during an actual typhoon; the rain is real, the mud is real, the exhaustion is real.
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