Beyond Hypothermia (film)
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''Beyond Hypothermia'' () is a
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Hong Kong action film directed by
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, co-produced by
Johnnie To Johnnie To Kei-fung (born 22 April 1955) is a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter and film producer. Popular in his native Hong Kong, To has also found acclaim overseas. Intensely prolific, To has made films in a variety of genres, though in ...
, and starring Jacklyn Wu and Sean Lau.


Plot

Woo Chin Lin plays a brilliantly skilled hitwoman, Shu Li Fan, who for most of the movie has no name. She also has no family or friends, and for reasons not entirely clear, has a lower than average body temperature. She was rescued as a child from war-ravaged Cambodia, and raised by Mei ( Shirley Wong), who is the widow of an assassin. Mei teaches the child the only thing she knows that connects her to the world: contract killing. Shu Li Fan's victims are as mysterious to her as she is to herself. However, during one of her hits she makes a sworn enemy of a Korean killer (Han Sang Woo.) There is one small ray of hope in her grim life, and that is the beginnings of a love affair with a simple and sweet-natured noodle vendor Long Shek (Hong Kong actor
Lau Ching Wan Sean Lau Ching-wan (born 16 February 1964) is a Hong Kong actor who has acted in both films and television series. He won Best Actor in the 2007 and 2015 Hong Kong Film Awards and in the 2000 and 2007 Golden Bauhinia Awards. Career Lau was born ...
.)


Cast

* Jacklyn Wu – Shu Li Han * Sean Lau – Long Shek * Sang Woo Han – Yichin


See also

* List of Hong Kong films * Girls with guns


External links

*
Beyond Hypothermia
at
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Beyond Hypothermia
at Hong Kong Movie DataBase
Beyond Hypothermia
at cinemasie database


References

1996 films 1990s Cantonese-language films Hong Kong martial arts films 1990s action films Girls with guns films 1996 martial arts films 1990s Hong Kong films {{Martialart-film-stub