Sons of the Neon Night

Set in a snow-struck and surreal Hong Kong, the film opens with gunmen aimlessly shooting in the over-crowded neon-lit downtown area. A series of seeming accidents led to the chairman of a pharmaceutical group, and a secretive godfather of the illegal drug trade, being killed in an explosion at the hospital where he was detained. The city is in chaos, the police paralysed, and the family businesses in turmoil. The youngest son, determined to break from the family’s disreputable past, will be the natural successor only if his fugitive elder brother and his deceased father’s followers present no hurdles. The film’s Chinese title, Feng (Wind) Lin (Forrest) Huo (Fire) Shan (Mountain), originates from the military classic, Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. In Sons of the Neon Night, family is the ultimate battlefield.