For this dizzying plunge into the sweaty, scuzzy glory days of 1980s Kowloon Walled City, director Soi Cheang summons a meticulously recreated enclave of urban blight and unfettered criminal anarchy to vivid life. The plot follows an illegal immigrant (Raymond Lam) caught between warring triad bosses in the City's cramped corridors. But the true star is the delirious production design: a ramshackle metropolis fused into one fetid super-organism of exposed wires, makeshift shanties, and human desperation–teeming with triads, refugees, and wuxia-powered henchmen sporting rat-tail hair. If this doesn’t sell it, the deliciously unhinged fight scenes definitely will. Throughout the protagonist’s journey, combatants grab mopping equipment, blowtorches, or whatever's handy. Bodies careen off rickety balconies into the cramped crevasses below, in a bone-crunching choreography staged with admirable clarity amid the mind-melting frenzy. OTT villains like Sammo Hung's pimped-out triad chief and Philip Ng's unforgettable “Iron Shirt”-powered psycho sidekick elevate the pulpy decadence.