Bibliograph

Throw down / Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd., China Star Entertainment Group, One Hundred Years of Film ; Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd Production ; Johnnie To, director ; Yau Nai-Hoi, Yip Tin-Shing, Au Kin-Yee, scriptwriters

Type

Label

Throw down / Sil-Metropole Organisation Ltd., China Star Entertainment Group, One Hundred Years of Film ; Milkyway Image (HK) Ltd Production ; Johnnie To, director ; Yau Nai-Hoi, Yip Tin-Shing, Au Kin-Yee, scriptwriters

Language

chi

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Oclc number

1262141979

Runtime

Series statement

The Criterion collection, 1092

Summary

"One of the most personal films by the prolific Hong Kong auteur Johnnie To is a thrilling love letter to both the cinema of Akira Kurosawa and the art and philosophy of judo. Amid the neon-drenched nightclubs and gambling dens of Hong Kong's nocturnal underworld, the fates of three wandering souls--a former judo champion (Louis Koo) now barely scraping by as an alcoholic bar owner, a young fighter (Aaron Kwok) intent on challenging him, and a singer (Cherrie Ying) chasing dreams of stardom--collide in an operatic explosion of human pain, ambition, perseverance, and redemption. Paying offbeat homage to Kurosawa's debut feature, Sanshiro Sugata, To scrambles wild comedy, flights of lyrical surrealism, and rousing martial-arts action into what is ultimately a disarmingly touching ode to the healing power of friendship"--Container

Technique

live action

resource.variantTitle

Yau doh lung fu bong

Classification