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The Last Dance

破·地獄

  • Status: Released
  • 09-11-2024
  • Runtime: 126 min
  • Score: 7.87
  • Vote count: 51

A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.

Michael Hui Koon-Man

Man Kwok

Dayo Wong

Dominic Ngai

Michelle Wai Si-Nga

Man Yuet Kwok

Tommy Chu Pak-Hong

Ben Kwok

Ching-Hin Chan

Bonewashing Family

Katrina Chan Pei-Shin

Hei Man

Catherine Chau

Jane

Che Chun-Hoi

Yman

Kiki Cheung Hoi-Kei

Mandy

Aggie Chow

Kit

Chor-Ying Chun

Corpse Make-Up Artist

Paul Chun Pui

Ming

Chung Suet-Ying

Suey

Vernon Fong

Mr. Chu

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Lin

Vincent Kok Tak-Chiu

Elly Lam

Karen

Polly Lau

Mrs. Chu

Rachel Leung

Soso

Li Kit-Wa

Funeral Attendant

Thor Lok

On

Edward Ma

Samson

Michael Ning

Mr. Lai

Marquis Oakes

Yeung

Mary Poon

Mrs. Chu

Sham Ka-Ki

Dominic's Brother

Gallan So Chi-Chiu

Three Opposing Taoist Priest

Chun-Sang Tai

Old Man's Son

Clifford Tsang Man-Wai

Three Opposing Taoist Priest

Yui Chi Tsang

Mortician

Rosa Maria Velasco

Ms. Yen

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"Dominic" (Dayo Wong) is struggling to make ends meet, post COVID, with his business in tatters and his repayment bills at almost $13,000 per month. He's not afraid of hard work, though, so when his "Uncle Ming" (Paul Chun) offers him his share in a funeral parlour he jumps at the chance. His partner - rather sarcastically referred to as "Hello Man" (Michael Hui) comes across as a rather curmudgeonly fellow - a traditionalist Taoist priest who lives with his ambulance-driving daughter "Yuet" (Michelle Wai) and his favourite son "Ben" (Pak Hon Chu) who is attempting to follow in his father's footsteps. Thing is, in his excitement to get the job done and to make enough money to clear his debts, he makes quite a few schoolboy errors at the start that are way more lively to offend the ancestors than send them peaceably on their way to the next life, and that just irks the older man who feels his new pal is disrespectful. As the story unfolds, we follow a young man who learns a little more about a business that is really anything but. At times this is quite a funny story, with a special appearance by a full-sized, papier-mâché, yellow Maserati rather summing up the ineptness of "Dominic" as he strives for success, but that humour rather quickly evaporates leaving us with a familial drama the can be quite poignant at times as it looks at the restricting roles for women and the hereditary responsibility of sons. Given the professions of the characters, grief is never far away and we focus quiet tenderly at times at just how people come to terms with that - or not, whilst we also try to reconcile just how families themselves change from generation to generation, with some tough decisions having to be made that centre around "Ben" and his need to look forward and not back. The acting is engaging and the dialogue well written, allowing the action to do plenty of the work without subjecting us to a constant surfeit of chatter, and it handles the topic of death and the provisions we make to deal with it and it's aftermath sensitively.

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