A darkly comic tale of a world in which the female population are slowly, and methodically doing away with their male counterparts.
Acting
Simon Yam's sweaty, desperate everyman anchors the absurdity.
Direction
Pang's deadpan staging of the unbelievable.
Writing
Dialogue that treats madness as mundane.
Director
Edmond Pang
Simon Yam
Tsim Kin-Yip
Annie Liu Xin-You
Ann
Nick Cheung Ka-Fai
Kwan Ping-Man
Irene Wan
Pun Siu-Yuen
Maggie Shiu
Fong
Candice Yu On-On
Ann's mother
Pal Sinn Lap-Man
Ann's father
Vincci Cheuk Wan-Chi
Professor Teaching Electronics
Gordon Lam Ka-Tung
Fai
Gregory Charles Rivers
Duty Officer
Susan Shaw Yam-Yam
Professor of Poison
Leanne Foo Hiu-Mei
Policewoman Recording Crime Report
Jim Chim Sui-Man
Man in Wheelchair
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edmond Pang was part of Hong Kong's 'fresh wave' of 2000s auteurs, using genre trappings to smuggle social commentary past censors.
The film deliberately mirrors real Hong Kong disappearances—political dissidents, booksellers—making its gender allegory uncomfortably porous.
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