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in the Midnight Madness section.

Plot

There is a legend of an executioner who created a poison which brought death through absolute pleasure. This legend repeats nowadays when a French woman flees to Hong Kong after killing her lover and stealing from him an old artifact containing this poison. She meets a mobster from Taiwan and an epicurean and sadistic woman killer, who all want to get the precious poison.

Cast

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* * 2009 films 2000s French-language films 2000s Cantonese-language films French multilingual films Hong Kong multilingual films Hong Kong LGBT-related films French LGBT-related films Films shot in Hong Kong Lesbian-related films 2000s erotic thriller films Hong Kong martial arts films Girls with guns films 2009 martial arts films 2009 horror films Hong Kong thriller films Hong Kong horror films French thriller films French horror films BDSM in films 2000s French films 2000s Hong Kong films 2009 multilingual films {{erotic-thriller-film-stub