“City of Darkness”, a Chinese drama film as violent as it is dramatic

by time news

2024-08-13 18:36:20

During the 1980s, while Hong Kong was still an autonomous region, there was a wave of immigration from other Southeast Asian countries. Among the best-known illegal aliens, Chan Lok-kwan, is forced into petty crime. But, tricked by his boss, named Mr. Big, he steals a lot of drugs and runs to the shelter in the Kowloon tower. A lawless area, a den of criminals and the poor among the poor, where a coalition of governments yet…

There really is Kowloon Citadel. A former fortress, it has been transformed after the Second World War into a refuge for squatters, tramps, the most needy, but also drug addicts and criminals. The density of residents and apartments there were such that the residents below did not see the sun. It was finally demolished in the 1990s.

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