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Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-ttjuNyEiQ
Stephen Teo, author of Director in Action: Johnnie To and the Hong Kong Action Film, likens this bizarre genre mash-up to “an action film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger directed by Robert Bresson.” If that’s not enough to pique interest, it also won three Hong Kong Film Awards, including Best Film and Best Actor. It stars Andy Lau (in an absurd muscle suit) as Big, an ex-Buddhist monk turned bodybuilder who makes his living as a striptease artist. Big is blessed with “Karma-vision” (the ability to see people’s past lives), and he uses it to help a cop (Cecilia Cheung) hunt for a dangerous wall-crawling supervillain “straight out of the Marvel comic books” (Teo). An action thriller at heart, Running on Karma also mixes in elements of humor and Buddhist parable. By the end, it’s clear that Big’s journey is ultimately a spiritual one. (Dir.: Johnnie To & Wai Ka-fai, Hong Kong, 2003, 93 min., DCP, Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles) Images courtesy of Fortune Star |
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