Once a Gangster

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Movie: Once a Gangster
Chinese: 飞沙风中转 (Fei Sha Feng Zhong Zhuan)
Director: Felix Chong
Writer: Felix Chong
Producer: Alan Mak
Cinematographer: Lin Yau Tsou
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Runtime: 95 min
Language: Cantonese
Country: Hong Kong

Plot

Celebrity cook Roast Pork (Jordan Chan) is known for his culinary sleight of hand, but hardly anyone realizes he used to be a young and dangerous slayer who cut human flesh rather than poultry meat. Now a family man who strives to be a caring father, he finds his idyllic life turn topsy-turvy when his Triad mentor comes out of nowhere and commands him to run for the “Dragon Head” in the underworld.

Roast Pork’s only chance to extricate himself from this quagmire is to lose the election to another candidate called Sparrow (Ekin Cheng), who supposedly is the designated heir apparent to the previous kingpin. Ironically enough, Sparrow has found his true calling in academia while serving terms in prison. He has set his mind to getting into the best university in Hong Kong rather than re-donning his Triad cloak.

While these two reluctant candidates are racking their brains to outwit each other so that they can stay out of the race, their inglorious pasts eventually catch up with them as their followers are plunged into mayhem and bloodshed on pain of death to get their leaders onto the throne.

Cast

Ekin Cheng - Sparrow
Jordan Chan - Roast Pork
Michelle Ye - Nancy
On-on Yu - Lady Pearl
Alex Fong - Kerosene
Wilfred Lau - Yan
Conroy Chan Chi-Chung - Scissor
Kwok Cheung Tsang

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Film Festivals

2010 (14th) Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival - July 15th-25th - World Fantastic Cinema * Korean Premiere
2011 (35th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 20 - April 5, 2011 - Hong Kong Panorama 2010-2011

Awards

Best New Director - 2011 (30th) Hong Kong Film Awards - April 17, 2011

Comments

Comment #1
reaver Says:
Jan 17 2011 8:39 pm

This a overall a good movie, mostly a satire but gets serious at the end and then back to funny. If you are a fan of Y&D and older triad movies you will find this funny and get the references.