Shamo
Gwan gaai
Hong Kong, Japan
2007
105 Min
Color
1.85:1
Cantonese, English
Synopsis
Based on the Japanese Manga about Ryo Narushima, a talented, college-bound student who murders both of his parents in cold blood. He is sent to a reformatory where he trains in karate under Kenji Kurokawa, a man imprisoned after trying to assassinate the Japanese Prime Minister. Two years after his conviction, Ryo is released and begins a new life as an ultra-violent professional fighter. —IMDb
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Cheang Pou-Soi
Soi Cheang has been working with Digital Video before making his first 35-mm feature with Diamond Hill, a film about incest and with some horror elements as he describes. Like Chow, he was also used to production sets since he’s been assistant directors for Ringo Lam, Andrew Lau and Wilson Yip. His second 35-mm film Horror Hotline… Big Head Monster, supposedly a real scary movie, is far away from any HK comedy-plus-horror package films. For this second experience as director he cast not less than the current biggest names in HK, e.g. Francis Ng, Josie Ho, Sam Lee, directors Wilson Yip & Alan Mak and scriptwriter Roy Szeto. —hkcinemagic.com
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Hong Kong Wasteland: An Interview with Soi Cheang
By The Ferroni Brigade on December 19, 2011
A retrospective in Vienna gives us to the chance to talk to the last (so far) addition to Hong Kong cinema’s key genre auteurs.
Shamo Review
By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
Sadly, it’s lots of style with very little substance in director Soi Cheang’s follow up to last year’s Dog Bite Dog. Soi’s latest, Shamo, continues to explore the very dark themes of its predecessor while
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