| Fulltime Killer (2001)
全職殺手
Director: Johnnie To Kei-Fung,
Wai Ka-Fai
Starring: Andy
Lau Tak-Wah, Takashi
Sorimachi
Famed director Johnnie To returns to the crime
genre with a dynamic tale of two very different assassins.
Co-directors Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai reimagined
the bullet ballet genre with a series of films made under the Milkyway
Image Productions banner between 1997-1999. Then they turned their
attention to lighter, more populist comedies such as Needing You and
this summer’s Love on a Diet. Now they have returned to the world of
smoking guns and bullet-riddled bodies.
Two killers are pitted against each other,
highlighting their different approaches to the assassination game. Andy
Lau essays Tok, an ambitious and glamorous professional; Takashai
Sorimachi plays the haunted O, a killer who likes to fly under the radar
and suffers a lonely lifestyle as a result.
Their lives inevitably intersect as the tale
progresses. Kelly Lam portrays Chin, a seemingly self-effacing video
store clerk who picks up extra cash by cleaning O’s apartment. Of
course, you can’t have criminals without police chasing them, and Simon
Yam embodies Lee, a well-respected Interpol inspector who becomes
obsessed with the two assassins as he pursues them through a multitude
of locales. Also featured are Cherrie Ying as Gigi, a junior Interpol
inspector, and Teddy Lin as C7, Tok’s brother and also the “manager” for
O.
DVD:
List Price: US $23.95
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Price: US$9.95
Language:
Cantonese / Mandarin
Subtitle:
English / Traditional Chinese
/ Simplified Chinese
All Regions
(Can be played on any DVD player in the
world)
Letter Box
Rating:
IIB
- "Adult Material;
Parental Guidance Recommended" (roughly equal to an
MPPA rating of "R") Films rated Category IIB
contain large amounts of violence and/or nudity and
sexual situations in addition to possible explicit
language and adult situations.
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