1989 | dir: Wayne Wang | 85 min
Special Features:
- Limited edition slipcase with gold foil design on Colorplan paper
- Collectable gold-stamped money bag with $100 prop bill
- New 4K restoration from the original 35mm color interpositive
- New video interview with director Wayne Wang
- New video interview with co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako & Wang
- Original full length chase sequence
- U.S. Theatrical Trailer
- New English subtitle translation
- 12-page booklet with new essay "Missing Link" by Aliza Ma
*Limited edition run of 1,000
Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao) – independent filmmaking legend Wayne Wang’s Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive barrels through inspired genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu-fiction and fierce political jeremiad, all with a keen sense of humor and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s. New director-approved 4K restoration.
"Director Wayne Wang’s versatility has never failed to impress."
- Rogerebert.com
"[I]ncredibly unique — and a reminder of how gloriously unhinged late 20th-century independent cinema could be."
- Film Inquiry
"Wayne Wang’s Hong Kong Noir Dazzles In New Director’s Cut & Restoration."
- The Playlist
This blu-ray release is locked for Region A (North America, Central America, South America, Japan, North Korea, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia).
