A true to Hong Kong film, in both culture and in the homage and heritage to the golden age of Hong Kong cinema, so brilliantly produced at that.
Every shot feels so well crafted, choreographered, directed, acted.
I would even contest that it is heavily influenced by Japanese manga in it's framing, art direction, story and character structure. No better example than the character AV refering to Japanese a few times. And it makes sense as Hong Kong was also…