The Longest Nite

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The Longest Nite (1997) is a dark neo-noir action film from Hong Kong directed by Patrick Yau (Expect the Unexpected). The title of this crime tale translates as "dark flowers," slang for an underworld contract.

While a gang war is developing, Macao cop Sam (Tony Leung Chiu-wai) takes on a gunman in a restaurant where bald Tony (Lau Ching-Wan) is eating. After Sam goes to a mobster's restaurant where an informant is tortured, he finds a headless corpse in his apartment. Then a nightclub owner is murdered, and Sam moves fast to find the killer in an effort to prevent the gang war from escalating. However, he gets a full dose of action after he pins the crime on Tony. This film manages to meld the gritty immediacy of a Jim Thompson novel with the ballistic ballet trend in Hong Kong Cinema.

This film was produced by Johnnie To and Wa Ka-Fai for Milkyway Pictures.

[edit] Trivia

• Lau Ching-Wan shaved his head bald for the film at a press conference announcement for the film.

[edit] Soundtrack

• "The Chase" by Giorgio Moroder (From Midnight Express)