Plastic City

   

It already played the festival circuit in a different version, but this is the completed, and completely different, version of Yu Lik-wai’s psychedelic gangster movie. Shot in Brazil and starring Hong Kong’s Anthony Wong and Japan’s Joe Odagiri, it starts as a typical gangster film, before it trips out and sails into the stratosphere as Anthony Wong becomes a shaman and Joe Odagiri leads an army of child soldiers. As Wong says, “Don’t stare too long at the white tiger, or it will destroy you.” Right on, man.

NR, 92 Minutes, Mandarin, Portuguese, Japanese
Hong Kong, 2008