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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive is a 1989 black comedy film directed by Wayne Wang. The film stars Cheng Wan Kin and John Chan. It won an award at the 1990 Rotterdam International Film Festival.
Synopsis. A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found.
- Wayne Wang
- 83 min
- 2
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Sep 30, 2022 · Wang's 1989 film "Life is Cheap ... but Toilet Paper is Expensive"—which is getting a brief, limited theatrical release to celebrate its 4K restoration by the filmmaker—is a kinda mystery thriller, in the way that Jean Luc-Godard's debut "Breathless" is kinda the story of lovers on the run.
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Sep 30, 2022 · Wayne Wang (Chan is Missing, The Joy Luck Club) has been revising his marvelously titled Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive since its initial release in 1989.
Directed by Wayne Wang • 1989 • United States Starring Victor Wong, Lo Lieh, Lo Wei Exploding a seemingly simple premise—a nameless “cowboy” courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial mob boss and becomes entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao)—this long-unavailable triumph from...
