What with a family wedding on the 'left' coast and dealing with jet lag I've missed a smack of reports on the Tony Leung/Andrew Lau/Alan Mak crime drama currently in production titled Wounded City. So here's a bit of catch up, thanks in whole to the fine folks at Monkeypeaches.
1. Shooting began end of June. This article quickly skirts over the plot again and talks about how upset Leung was when he learned that the bad cop role he coveted would have less screen time than the good cop role, played by Takeshi Kaneshiro. Baby. You wanted the role buster. Leung and Kaneshiro pics. Why do I crave a Slurpee suddenly?
2. Perhaps some settlement on which project is which. Perhaps one in the same? A once reported film titled Behind the Sin could very well be Wounded City. We've talked about this before. Moving on...
3. Is this the teaser poster for Wounded City? And why is the translation Confession of Pain?
4. Some snaps of Takeshi Kaneshiro shooting a scene for the film. 1 2 3 4
5. And now for a more detailed plot descritption, which came out yesterday during a press conference...
Leung Chiu-Wai plays a senior police officer Lau and Takeshi Kaneshiro plays an alcoholic private detective Yau, who was once a cop working under Lau's supervision. Have been maintaining a mentor / protegy relationship for many years, Lau and Yau are both involved in the investigation of a murder of an entire family, which is somehow connected to the past of Lau and Yau. Xu Jinglei plays Lau's new wife, who is unwillingly used by her husband for some plot and Shu Qi plays a woman having some unusual relationship with Yau.
That's pretty much it for now. I pretty much like everyone involved in this project so hopefully there will be no more family functions to take me away from keeping you all up to date.
Tah.