A Film Series for You: Celebrating Giant Robot’s 30th Anniversary - One Nite in Mongkok
Sun 11/17/2024 • 7PM PST
Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum
In-person:
Actor Daniel Wu, Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura.
One Nite in Mongkok
Hong Kong, 2004
Derek Yee won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this gritty crime thriller set over 36 hours in Hong Kong’s famed Mong Kok neighborhood. Longtime Giant Robot fan and contributor Daniel Wu stars as a hit man arriving from the mainland on assignment who ends up on the run himself from the cops and the gangsters who hired him, with a woman who’s a sex worker (Cecilia Cheung) in tow.
DCP, color, in Cantonese with English subtitles, 110 min. Director: Derek Yee Tung-Sing. Screenwriter: Derek Yee Tung-Sing. With: Cecilia Cheung, Daniel Wu, Alex Fong Chung-Sun.