4 Star Theatre - 5th New Asian Film Festival

TOO MANY WAYS TO BE NO. 1
Year: 1997 | Country: Hong Kong | Language: Cantonese | Length: 95 min.

Thu 8/16, 2:10 | Fri 8/17, 10:10

Written and directed by Wa Ka Fai and produced by Johnnie To, Too Many Ways dissects and reassembles the gangster film into a fresh amalgamation of throbbing colors, severe camera angles and disjointed timelines. After an inept gang accidentally runs over their boss, they are left to bumble through the appointments and transactions left by their boss. Miscue is followed by miscue until everything backs up and they get to try it again with a different decision changing circumstances downstream. Try Run Gangster Run, but add wild and off the cuff Hong Kong gangster hilarity to the mix and you have Too Many Ways to Die. Whatever it is, it obviously works - many considered it the best HK film of '97. Directed by Wa Ka Fai. With Lau Ching Wan, Francis Ng, Elvis Tsui, Carmen Lee. 1997. 95 minutes.

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