25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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Special Screening

You Shoot, I Shoot

買兇拍人

Pang Ho-cheung announced himself as a major comic voice with this deadpan black comedy, a debut that doubles as a gleeful joke at the film industry’s expense. Bart is a contract killer whose business has gone soft, and his last hope is a demanding new client who will only pay if each killing is captured on video. Bart knows how to shoot a target. He has no idea how to shoot a movie. So he hires Chuen, a broke, unemployed film-school graduate brimming with artistic ambition, to direct his hits. What follows turns the mechanics of murder into a full-blown film production, complete with creative differences, budget panic, and a director who needs every assassination to mean something. Quick, dry, and ruthlessly funny.

Director: Pang Ho-cheung
Producer: Raymond Chow
Screenwriters: Pang Ho-cheung, Vincent Kok
Cast: Eric Kot, Cheun Tat Ming, Asuka Higuchi
Languages: Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
2001; 98 min.; DCP
Country: Hong Kong

SCHEDULE:

Thursday July 16, 7:30pm
Anthology Film Archives

Intro and Q&A with director Pang Ho-cheung