''One Nite in Mongkok'' () is a 2004 Hong Kong

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film written and directed by

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and starring

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, Cecilia Cheung and Alex Fong. The film is a sequel to the Yee-produced 2000 film ''

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'', with Fong reprising his role from the previous installment. A sequel to the film, '' Triple Tap'', was released in 2010, which was once again directed by Yee and featured Fong reprising his role, while also starring Wu in a different role.

Cast

as Lin Lai-fu * Cecilia Cheung as Dandan * Alex Fong as Milo / Miu Chi-sun * Anson Leung as Beel * Chin Ka-lok as Brandon * Cha Chuen-yee as Head of Anti-vice Unit * Alexander Chan as Wah *

Monica Chan Monica Chan Fat-yung (Chinese: 陳法蓉) is a Hong Kong actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. She won the Miss Hong Kong 1989 pageant. Before her acting days, Chan graduated from high school in Canada and attended University of Hawaiʻi. ...

as Milo's wife * Paul Che as Shitty Kong * Henry Fong as Carl * Christie Fung as Sue * Cynthia Ho as Jane * Elena Kong as Nightclub Lady *

Lam Suet Lam Suet (; born 1964), or Lin Xue, is a Hong Kong film actor. Life and career Lam was born in Tianjin, and came to Hong Kong as a youth in 1979 to receive inheritance money left by his grandfather. Soon after, all the money had been squander ...

as Liu * Lawrence Lau as Fatty – nightclub manager * Sam Lee as Franky * Ng Shui-ting as Kinson * Paw Hee-ching as Volunteer helper at Sue's home * Eddie Pang as Tiger * Sun Limin as Tim * Redbean Lau as Tim's wife * Austin Wai as Milo's superior * Ken Wong as Wilson

Reception

Film critic

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praised the film as a "crackerjack crimer", seeing it as a return by Derek Yee to the grittier style of '' People’s Hero'' and "away from the gentler relationship movies for which he’s better known". Elley also noted the film being set during a "nervous period prior to Hong Kong’s handover to China", just before Christmas in 1996. In a paper for

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, Hilary Hongjin He opined that this date was chosen to appease the censors for the film's mainland Chinese release, as it helped "pretend that all things bad happened in the ‘corrupted’

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era."

Awards and nominations

References

External links

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hkcinemagic entry

One Nite in Mongkok at hkmdb.com
{{Authority control 2004 films 2004 crime thriller films Hong Kong crime thriller films Triad films Police detective films 2000s Cantonese-language films Films directed by Derek Yee Films about contract killing Films set in Hong Kong Films shot in Hong Kong 2000s Hong Kong films Films scored by Peter Kam