Director: Johnnie to
Script.: Yau Nai Hoi, Chan Kin Chung, Fung Chih Chiang
Cinema.: Cheng Siu Keung
Edit.: David Richardson
Music: Xavier Jamaux, Fred Avril
Cast: Simon Yam, Kelly Lin, Ka Tung Lam, Lo Hoi Pang, Kenneth Cheung, Law Wing-Cheong
Production: Milkyway Creative Team
Distribution:
ARP Selection
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Year: 2008
35 mm, Color, 87 min, Cantonese Chinese with French Subtitles
In Hong Kong, a sparrow is a pickpocket. Kei, the best among them, and his friends Sak, Mac and Bo are leading a quiet life of petty thefts. One day, the four friends meet Lei, a pretty young woman. Each of them falls for charming Lei who is held prisoner by rich businessman Fu. The pickpockets will set up several ‘tricks’ to free the young woman from Mr. Fu’s hold. “the film portrays a more subtle and moving element: Hong Kong city. This city keeps on changing. In Hong Kong the east meets the west, the old merges with the new” . Johnnie To
