One Nite in Mongkok

In-person:

actor Daniel Wu, Giant Robot founder Eric Nakamura.

Admission is free. No advance reservations. Your seat will be assigned to you when you pick up your ticket at the box office. Seats are assigned on a first come, first served basis. The box office opens one hour before the event.

One Nite in Mongkok

Hong Kong, 2004

Derek Yee won Best Director at the Hong Kong Film Awards for this gritty crime thriller set over 36 hours in Hong Kong’s famed Mong Kok neighborhood. Longtime Giant Robot fan and contributor Daniel Wu stars as a hit man arriving from the mainland on assignment who ends up on the run himself from the cops and the gangsters who hired him, with a woman who’s a sex worker (Cecilia Cheung) in tow.

DCP, color, in Cantonese with English subtitles, 110 min. Director: Derek Yee Tung-Sing. Screenwriter: Derek Yee Tung-Sing. With: Cecilia Cheung, Daniel Wu, Alex Fong Chung-Sun.