20th Anniversary New York Asian Film Festival

Jul 15-31, 2022

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Tribute to Josie Ho

Full Strike

全力扣殺

Director Derek Kwok loves his losers, whether it's the geriatric martial arts masters of "Gallants", or the hapless demon hunter of Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West". Now, he turns his attention to badminton and transforms it into a martial art. Washed-up former 90's pop star, Ekin Cheng, plays one of three crooks fresh out of prison and desperate to start new lives. Josie Ho shines as “Beast” Ng, the washed-up former badminton champion who agrees to be their Yoda. Full of berserk camerawork, crazed performances, meteors shaped like shuttlecocks, and a go-for-broke, anything-for-the-joke attitude, this is a scorched earth comedy that leaves the screen in tatters and doesn't end until the last racquet explodes.

Directors: Henri Wong, Derek Kwok
Cast: Josie Ho, Ekin Cheng, Ronald Cheng
Languages: Cantonese with English subtitles
2015; 108 min.

SCHEDULE:

Monday July 18, 3:30pm
Film at Lincoln Center

Actor Josie Ho will attend the screening.

Josie Ho

Award-winning actress, producer, rockstar and Hong Kong culture icon Josie Ho first graced the silver screen in 1994 and has appeared in such notable films as Exiled (2006), The Drummer (2007), Dream Home (2010), and Full Strike (2015), which she also produced. Ho received a Best Supporting Actress award for Naked Ambition in 2003 at the Hong Kong Film Awards and In the Room in 2017 at the Malaysian Film Awards. She is also a prolific producer and has worked on such international productions as How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017), and Edge of the World (2019), in which she also starred.