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User Rating:
5.3/10   139 votes
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Director:
Chi-kin Kwok
Writers:
Clement Sze-Kit Cheng (screenplay)
Chi-kin Kwok (screenplay)
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Contact:
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Release Date:
29 May 2008 (Hong Kong) more
Genre:
Crime | Drama
Plot:
A Hong Kong cop is struggling for his survival in the underground world, a place filled with criminals and low life people like moss in rotting hell. | full synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
User Comments:
Not much of anything more

Cast

  (Credited cast)
Shawn Yue ... Jan
Seli Xian ... Lulu
Siu-Wong Fan ... Beggar
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Matt Chow ... Fai
Jay Lau ... Nurse
Kai Chi Liu ... Four-eyed Tong
Gill Mohindepaul Singh ... Singh (as Bobo Kiu)
Suet-yee Si ... Fa
Shaun Tam
Eric Tsang
Shaw Yin Yin ... Chong Mom (as Susan Shaw)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
The Moss (International: English title)
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Runtime:
Hong Kong:95 min
Country:
Hong Kong
Language:
Cantonese
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Certification:
Hong Kong:IIB
Company:
BIG Pictures more

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1 out of 3 people found the following comment useful:-
Not much of anything, 2 March 2009
3/10
Author: dbborroughs from Glen Cove, New York

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The title of the film refers to the low life dwellers of streets (cops, prostitutes, crooks) who cling on to the edges of society. Set in a city slum the film deals with a less then clean cop and the people he comes in contact with including a prostitute and a young girl, who dreams of being rescued by a prince. Striving to be something deep and meaningful the film fell flat for me. The rapid fire, hand held style may have kept things moving and allowed for the film to be shot in close quarters but at the same time the camera moves so much and the cuts are so rapid that its hard to get a handle on what your watching, or in some cases I wasn't sure who was who with most of the characters blending together (not because they look the same more that we never really get a good look at some of them). I really didn't care about anyone and it made getting through this film a real chore. Its not a bad film as such, but its the first film in a long while where I feel that it wasn't worth the effort to see it or to pick it up (or even review it). In a weird way its kind of like the title lichen, something that dwells in the corner and isn't worth your attention.

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