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voor de liefhebbers van asian crime films :)

A Mob Story 2007 
   
Director: Herman Yau Lai-To   
Producer: Andrew Lau Wai-Keung   
Writer: Peter Lam Chun-Yue   
Cast: Julian Cheung Chi-Lam, Cheung Tat-Ming, Yin Shin, Mandy Chiang Nga-Man, Hugo Ng Doi-Yung, Raymond Wong Ho-Yin, Johnny Chen (Lu Sze-Ming), Tina Chou, Lisa S   

The Skinny: 
Interesting, though hardly groundbreaking exploration of Hong Kong gangster themes from director Herman Yau. The film isn't especially noteworthy, but there's enough thought and deadpan wit here to make it better than your usual direct-to-video fare.   

Review
Herman Yau helms another foray into the triad genre with A Mob Story. Produced by Andrew Lau of Infernal Affairs fame, the film received its premiere at the 2007 Hong Kong International Film Festival before going straight to video. The Cantonese title of the film literally means, "Person in Jiang Hu", highlighting the philosophical gist of the film. This is a movie about man's existence in the underworld, but unlike the popular image of brotherhood and honor among gangsters, we get this solemn lesson: being in the underworld is crap. This is a film that basically tells us that if you're in the underworld, you'll be stabbed in the back, your friends will turn on you for the smallest of reasons, and brotherhood means jack. Women are also bad news, and revenge isn't just empty, it's stupid. The best thing about the underworld? Usually everyone else is so busy fighting amongst themselves that you can go unnoticed. That is, until someone remembers that they hate you, after which they come gunning for you with a pronounced selfish glee. Strangely, the above description also sounds like real life.

DVD (Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
16x9 Anamorphic Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1
Removable English and Chinese Subtitles
Various extras
S01 files: 
File Description Second part of a split .ZIP archive created with ZipSplitter; saved along with other parts, named .S00, .S02, etc; can be extracted by running the .EXE file included with the split archive files. 

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