To Live And Die In Mongkok (Wong Jing, Chung Siu-Hung. 2009) [HK]

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Título: To Live And Die In Mongkok / Mongkok Prison Título V.O: 旺角监狱 / Mong kok gaam yuk Director: Wong Jing, Chung Siu-Hung Año/País: 2009 / Hong Kong Duración: 96 minutos Género: Drama, Comedia, Thriller, Acción Reparto: Nick Cheung, Chan Lai-Wan, Monica Mo Enlaces: Ficha de: spindizzy

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Wong Jing's latest effort is a bizarre gangster comedy that flirts with also being a psychological thriller, before settling into more comfortable triad territory. Nick Cheung plays Fai, a triad hitman coming to the end of a 30-year stretch in the big house for slaughtering 20 rival gang members in a street fight. Upon release, Fai and his trusty sidekick Little Fai, return to their old stomping ground of Mongkok only to discover that the entire district been renovated and rejuvenated beyond recognition, and his old gang are eagerly awaiting his help to settle a territory dispute.

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After spending 29 years in prison for slaughtering a rival gang, Nick Cheung’s schizophrenic gangster – sometimes violently paranoid, sometimes comically idiotic – returns to find himself trapped in the imaginary prison that is Mong Kok. While Paw Hee-ching’s dementia-suffering mother character provides the film’s most tender moments, Monica Mok’s abused prostitute and Liu Kai-chi’s crooked cop, respectively, throw some sexiness and moral complexity into the pot. What surprises most about Mongkok, however, is its amusing sense of social consciousness and nostalgia for a bygone era of Hong Kong cinema. Despite its intentionally trashy exterior, this is a crime flick with a heart.

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