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Dog Bite Dog

2006 · 109 min

A grim, bruising chase through neon and squalor that rarely lets up, leaving you tense and unsettled.

Tagline
Prepare to be annihilated!
Overview
A young Cambodian man who has been trained to fight for money in his country is hired to kill someone in Hong Kong. He performs the hit and then flees from Hong Kong police, who are wrestling with internal problems of a model cop and his son, who is also on the force and who was told by his dad not to become a police officer.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • darkstrength 3 of 3
  • bleakstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
relentless, 4 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • survival
  • violence
  • isolation
  • corruption
  • trauma
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore strong
  • Language strong
  • Violence strong
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action7
Horror5
Humour1
Realism7
Romance1
Tension8
Darkness9
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
action, crime, thriller
Directed by
Soi Cheang
Written by
Melvin Li, Matt Chow Hoi-kwong, Szeto Kam-yuen
Starring
Edison Chen, Sam Lee, Pei Wei-Ying, Cheung Siu-fai, Wayne Lai Yiu-cheung, Lam Suet, Dominic Lam Ka-wah, Ren Hao
Music
Chung Chi-Wing, Ben Cheung Siu-Hung
Cinematography
Edmond Fung Yuen-Man
Runtime
109 min
Country
Hong Kong
Languages
Cantonese, Thai, English, Khmer

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