25th New York Asian Film Festival

July 10-26, 2026

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, Cheung 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

Pang Ho-cheung
彭浩翔

Pang Ho-cheung debuted with You Shoot, I Shoot (2001), a hitman comedy that announced one of Hong Kong cinema's most distinctive voices. Isabella (2006) premiered in competition at the Berlinale, and he spent the following decade alternating romantic comedy and provocation: Exodus (2007), Love in a Puff (2010) and Love in the Buff (2012), and the film industry farce Vulgaria (2012). He returns to NYAFF for the 25th anniversary screening of You Shoot, I Shoot at Anthology Film Archives, twenty-five years after the film and the festival arrived together.