Gallants

Gallants

Gallants (Da Lui Toi)

Clement Sze-Kit Chen and Chi-kin Kwok, 2010, 98´
A high-energy comedy about martial arts, the film won the awards for “Best Picture”, “Best Supporting Actor”, and “Best Supporting Actress” at the 2011 Hong Kong Film Awards. Real estate agent Cheung goes to a remote village to settle property rights and arrives in Mang’s teahouse which was once Law’s kung-fu school. Law has been lying in a coma for thirty years in the upper floor of the teahouse. But when the landlord Pong attempts to secure the place to a contractor Law wakes up from his coma, however, neither his memory nor sanity is complete.

Past Programs
Hong Kong Film Panorama
May 10–20, 2012