Punished

Punished
Traditional 報應
Simplified 报应
Directed by Law Wing-cheong
Produced by Johnnie To
Starring
Production
company
Media Asia Films
Milkyway Image
Distributed by Media Asia Distribution
Release dates
  • 5 May 2011
Running time
 94 minutes
Country Hong Kong
Language Cantonese

Punished is a 2011 Hong Kong thriller film directed by Law Wing-cheong. The film stars Anthony Wong, Richie Ren, and Janice Man.

Plot

The story starts with real estate tycoon, Wong Ho-Chiu (Anthony Wong Chau-Sang) who celebrates his wife's (Maggie Cheung ho-yee) and his daughters birthday, Daisy (Janice Man. Daisy wants to travel overseas. But Wong Ho-Chiu has an argument with her and she runs out of the house. The next day Wong Ho-Chiu receives a video message of Daisy who has been kidnapped and the kidnappers demand 10 million for her release. Wong Ho-Chiu does not report this to the police as he thinks it is his own daughter who has abducted herself and is requesting money for it. He warnes the kidnapper that if anything happens to Daisy, he will stop at nothing to avenge for her. The kidnappers got agitated because of this and kill Daisy. Wong Ho-Chiu asks his most trusted bodyguard Chor (Richen Ren) to look into it. While searching, Chor manages to find the location of Daisy who has been killed. Wong Ho-Chiu is distraught when he learns that his daughter is dead. He lies to everyone saying that Daisy is alive and was sent to L.A. Wong Ho-Chiu turns to Chor to seek out the perpetrators and exact revenge. Wong Ho-Chiu goes one step further and orders Chor to videotape each of their executions. Each time a videotape of the execution been sent to Wong Ho-Chiu, he will carry out a prayer of it. When the third perpetrator has been tracked, Wong Ho-Chiu's wife gets to know about the matter and asks Wong Ho-Chiu to stop the revenge killings but he refuses leading to his wife leaving him. During Wong Ho-Chiu medical check-up, his doctor told him that his assistant came to pick up Daisy's heart ailment medicine. Only then does Wong Ho-Chiu realize who the final perpetrator is and requests Chor to bring him over as he wants to kill that person himself. The final perpetrator is Daisy's female assistant. While fighting, she falls off the rooftop and it is revealed she has a daughter. When Wong Ho-Chiu sees the daughter, he recalls Daisy's childhood and he has second thoughts of killing her.

Cast

Release

The film was released in Hong Kong on 5 May 2011.[1]

References

  1. ↑ "Johnnie To collaborator delivers HK thriller". Retrieved 2011-03-14.

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