HK: Moonlight in Tokyo (Ching yi ngor sum gi)

Director: Felix Chong, Siu Fai Mak
Stars: Leon Lai, Chapman To, Kuei-Mei Y
Release date: HK- Dec 9th 2005.
Length: Way too long...

AVOID
Saw this in Chinatown & thought it was a load of cobblers. The basic premise of the story is that Leon Lai's character is retarded, disposed of by his family in Japan, meets Chapman To's obnoxious character, who then pimps Lai disguised as a Korean gigolo so that he can earn enough cash to pay back his debts to angry Yakuza. Inept screenplay, unlikeable characters, terrible plotting with a cracked narrative, stupid finale, dumbness, pointless violence towards the disabled. Everything that is classically bad with contemporary HK films is in this one. Maybe my western viewpoint didn't find the idea all that amusing.

I think i'm going to stick with martial art & gangster films from now on.

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