Election (2005)

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Hong Kong

Feature Film

Original Title: 黑社會

Director: Johnnie To

Writers: Yau Nai Hoi, Yip Tin Shing

Cinematographer: Cheng Siu Keung

Composer: Lo Tayu

Cast: Simon Yam, Tony Leung Ka Fai, Louis Koo, Nick Cheung, Lam Ka Tung, Cheung Siu Fai, Lam Suet, Wong Tin Lam, Tam Ping Man, Maggie Shiu

The biennial election for the post of chairman of the Wo Shing Society – a Triad gang in Hong Kong – doesn’t run as smoothly as in previous years, when the defeated candidate takes objection to the result and determines to rectify matters, in this measured gangster film, in which the violence, generally kept to a minimum, is properly and rightly disquieting. Iain.Stott