After three local movies pretty much bagged all the wins at the recent Hong Kong Film Awards 2025, there’s been a good bit of interest generated around our cinematic works. Here’s something else for cinephiles to look forward to: the much-anticipated film Sons of the Neon Night should be released this year, and in the meantime, they’re presenting a special exhibition.
This upcoming crime thriller is directed, written, and produced by Juno Mak, who spent over four years developing the script and eight years producing the film. Set in a cold, bleak Hong Kong, the movie’s desolate colours and tones match Mak’s signature aesthetics, and is full of the drug killers, murderers, and morally ambiguous policemen that make Hong Kong cinema fun to watch. A Causeway Bay that’s covered in heavy snow is suddenly rocked by a violent explosion – the actions of a drug trafficking syndicate’s heir who surprisingly wants to rid the world of drugs.
Sons of the Neon Night also features an ensemble cast of Hong Kong screen greats, including Sean Lau and Michelle Wai, who both recently won in their nominated categories at the Hong Kong Film Awards 2025. Takeshi Kaneshiro stars as the leading heir looking to wipe his dark family history; Lau as a double-faced police officer; Louis Koo as a killer with a complicated past; Tony Leung Ka-fai as a psychologist serving the police force; Gao Yuanyuan as a therapist who understands criminals too well; and many more.
In order to introduce the public to his alternate Hong Kong and its morally grey inhabitants, Mak has commissioned Spanish sculptor Eudald de Juana Gorriz to create a series of sculptures for the film, including the five main characters. There are also film stills, concept art, and more on display. Immerse yourself into this Hong Kong that is simultaneously familiar and dismally cold at this exhibition, which is running until June 1 at the Gallery by the Harbour space in Harbour City.
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