Full Strike
New York Asian Film Festival 2015
June 26 - July 8, 2015
U.S. Premiere
Racquet sport becomes martial art when a down-and-out gang of has-beens form a badminton team to win back their self-respect in this hyperactive, totally surreal comedy from Derek Kwok, the co-director of Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West.
U.S. Premiere
Director Derek Kwok loves his losers, whether it’s the geriatric martial-arts masters of Gallants or the hapless demon hunter of Stephen Chow’s Journey to the West. Here he turns his attention to… badminton—and transforms it into a martial art. Former ’90s pop-star Ekin Cheng plays one of three crooks fresh out of prison and desperate to start new lives. Josie Ho plays the washed-up badminton champion who agrees to be their Yoda. Full of berserk camerawork, crazed performances, meteors shaped like shuttlecocks, and a go-for-broke, anything-for-the-joke attitude, this is a scorched earth comedy that leaves the screen in tatters and keeps going until the last racquet explodes.
Presented with the support of Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office New York.
Full Strike
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