The Last Dance

2024 2h 6m CN

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7.9

BANGER

★7.9TMDB · 84

Drama

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Despite the pandemic sending most industries into recession, debt-ridden wedding planner Dominic (Dayo WONG) gets a miraculous chance to turn things around when a funeral planner retires and passes the baton to him. His creative gimmicks for funerals help his business find unexpected success, but Dominic’s biggest obstacle is winning the approval of respected and sternly traditional Taoist priest, Master Man (Michael HUI). After some unordinary funerals, Dominic gradually understands Master Man’s code of ethics and the meaning behind each farewell.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Dayo Wong Chi-Wah
Dominic Ngai
Michelle Wai Si-Nga
Man-Yuet Kwok
Michael Hui Koon-Man
Man Kwok
Tommy Chu Pak-Hong
Ben Kwok
Catherine Chau
Jane
Paul Chun Pui
Ming
Vernon Fong
Mr. Chu
Polly Lau
Mrs. Chu

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Anselm Chan Mau-Yin
Writers: Anselm Chan Mau-Yin, Cheng Wai-Kei, Wong Fong Yi Feibi
Languages: Cantonese
Countries: Hong Kong, China

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ERA

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Released 2 years ago.

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WORLD

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International production across 2 countries: Hong Kong, China.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Anselm Chan Mau-Yin, shot by Anthony Pun Yiu-Ming. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Wan Pin-Chu. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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AWARDS

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Dayo Wong Chi-Wah and Michelle Wai Si-Nga and Michael Hui Koon-Man carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt31648020 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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Only 84 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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Anselm Chan Mau-Yin directs. Anthony Pun Yiu-Ming behind the camera. Wan Pin-Chu scores. Produced in Hong Kong, China. Dialogue in Cantonese.

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1Released 2 years ago.
2International production across 2 countries: Hong Kong, China.
3Directed by Anselm Chan Mau-Yin, shot by Anthony Pun Yiu-Ming. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Wan Pin-Chu. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Dayo Wong Chi-Wah and Michelle Wai Si-Nga and Michael Hui Koon-Man carry the top of the cast.
6IMDB entry: tt31648020 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 84 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
8Released under 15 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: Anthony Pun Yiu-Ming
Original score: Wan Pin-Chu
Runtime: 126 min · 2h 6m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Box office: $15,556,952
Original language: CN
IMDB: The Last Dance (2024)

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CinemaSerf2024-11-30
★ 7/10
"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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