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The first independent film released in post-Handover Hong Kong, director Fruit Chan’s atmospheric shoestring-budget character study is a rough-and-ready piece of work shot on grainy leftover 35mm short ends in the city’s overcrowded subsidized housing projects. The result is a tough, pessimistic film, a portrait of a city on the brink that follows the drifting of high school dropout and wannabe Triad tough Autumn Moon (Sam Lee, in a star-making role, opposite a largely nonprofessional cast), who sees little hope for his future or that of his home as a newly created Special Administrative Region within China. A raw, groundbreaking drama and portrait of nihilistic youth in the same vein as Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray, 1955), My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991), and The Doom Generation (Gregg Araki, 1995), the film poses questions that remain burningly relevant as tumult engulfs Hong Kong. The 4K restoration was carried out in the Hong Kong and Bologna headquarters of L’Immagine Ritrovata, made from the original camera negative with the supervision of director Fruit Chan and cinematographer O Sing-Pui. Special Features: • Audio Commentary by Film Critics Sean Gilman and Ryan Swen • Re-Release Trailer • Interviews with Director Fruit Chan, Producer Doris Yang, and Producer Daniel Yu

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* Fully Restored from the original film (Region A Blu-ray) Language:Cantonese 粵語 / Subtitles: English, Traditional Chinese 繁體中文字幕 / Synopsis: Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence. 阿珊（譚嘉荃 飾）是一個中學生，她受到情傷後選擇留下兩封遺書跳樓自殺；中秋（李燦森 飾）因為家庭破裂而淪為街頭流氓；阿屏（嚴栩慈 飾）是一個患上不治之症的少女，她的父親欠中秋大佬榮少一股債但卻留下妻兒不知去向，中秋為了自己鍾情的阿屏，答應為榮少當殺手籌集她手術所需的資金。最後中秋行動失敗，也遇襲受傷，傷癒出院後卻發現阿屏已病重過世，同時間他收留有智障的阿龍（李棟泉 飾），也被榮少利用偷運白粉失敗後被殺死。這時失落的中秋決定不再壓抑，要對 社會作出控訴…… Best Director of Hong Kong Film Award 1998 / Best New Performer of Hong Kong Film Award 1998 / Best Screenplay of Gijón International Film Festival 1997 / Best Director of Golden Bauhinia of Golden Bauhinia Awards 1998 / totally 15 wins and 8 nominations