Punished
New York Asian Film Festival 2011
July 1 - 14, 2011
International Premiere
This fractured, austere, mournful revenge thriller is about a father’s love for his daughter and just how many people he’ll kill for her.
International Premiere
From producer Johnnie To (Election) comes this kidnap drama from his longtime editor and assistant director, Law Wing-cheong. Anthony Wong, one of Hong Kong’s best actors, turns in the performance of his career as a real estate tycoon whose party girl daughter goes missing. He vows to get her back by any means necessary. Cut to: him finding her corpse, accidentally killed by the panicking kidnappers. Wong calls his enforcer and instructs him to kill everyone involved, but things aren’t what they seem, and before long everyone is down the rabbit hole and no one can be trusted.
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