16th New York Asian Film Festival

Jun 30 - Jul 16, 2017

Photo: © 2016 Sonneratia Capital, Emperor Film Production Company Limited, Red Films, Paperheart

New York Premiere

Mrs. K

An icon of 1970s and 1980s Shaw Brothers’ films, this could very well be Hong Kong actress Kara Wai's swan song for an amazing action career, and a spectacular send-off at that. She’s reunited with Ho Yuhang, with whom she worked with on celebrated 2009 drama At the End of Daybreak. Whatever the eponymous Mrs K might have been, she isn’t anymore. Comfortably settled and ensconsed in her role as a loving housewife, she lives a suburban existence focused on her family: her gynaecologist husband (Taiwan rocker Wu Bai) and her daughter (Siow Li Xuan). She is slowly easying into the idle pleasures of semi-retirement. But her peace is short-lived, a former associate (Simon Yam) from Macau has tracked her down and is seeking retribution for a past misdeed. To save her kidnapped daughter, Mrs K will have to return to her former bad-ass self.

Director: Ho Yuhang
Cast: Kirk Wong, Fruit Chan, Dain Said, Faizal Hussein, Wu Bai, Simon Yam, Kara Wai
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Malay, English with English subtitles
2016; 96 min.; DCP

SCHEDULE:

Saturday July 15, 5:30pm
SVA Theatre