''Red Nights'' (''Les Nuits rouges du Bourreau de Jade'') is a 2010

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directed by Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud. A Hong Kong-French-Belgian co-production, it is a thriller and a tale of

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. The filmmakers call it a Hong Kong ''

'' with mystery, (sadistic) murders,

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and women. The film played at the

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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.

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