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Soi Cheang’s Latest Gets A Name Change And Poster Art
Posted by Todd Brown at 9:22am.
Posted in Film News , Thriller, Action, Asia.
Hong Kong director Soi Cheang won a lot of fans in these parts with 2006’s Dog Bite Dog, a bleak and brutal film that would have marked a major career turning point for star Edison Chen had he not subsequently destroyed said career with the now infamous leaked sex-photo incident. The director followed that up with the less successful Shamo - equally bleak but not nearly as emotionally involving - and we’ve been anxious to see what would come next for Cheang.
Well, what came next was initially announced as Assassin, a film that would mark a return to the fold of sorts for the director, who started his career working as Johnnie To’s AD and would shoot this one under To’s Milkyway banner with To himself on board as a producer. Well, the film has since been retitled Accident and the first artwork from the picture was unveiled by distributors Media Asia at the American Film Market.
The film tells the story of “The Brain”, a professional hit man who kills his victims by trapping them in elaborately staged ‘accidents’. He’s good at his job but it plays on his natural tendencies towards guilt and paranoia, paranoia that leaps to the forefront when a botched kill takes the life of one of his own team members and The Brain becomes convinced that someone is using his own methods to eliminate him and his entire team. Richie Jen, Louis Koo and Lam Suet star.
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