Dangerous Encounters: 1st Kind (Di yi lei xing wei xian)

Youth going to the grinder. A portrait of a city where everything from institutions to brotherhood relationships is near collapse. The greatest punk film ever made. Nihilism has never been rendered this affecting.

Filipe Furtado

Starts with our heroine torturing her pet mice, ends on top of a literal mountain of death. Movies don't get any angrier.

Sean Gilman

Colonial territory a negation of its peoples within which finds such people negating its use to the colonizers in negating the land itself. What else can you call its youth planting bombs in their own home? The act of terrorism becomes so unspokenly consigned by the city's…

reibureibu

One of the most foul, brutal, sickening, abhorrent and gruesomely execrable experiences in all of cinematic existence; I love it dearly.

Eli Hayes

Among the most brutal, nihilistic movies I've ever seen, a movie that begins with animal torture and ends with a savage parody of the ending of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly where the lust for gold has been replaced with nothing other than the desire of all involved to exact…

Jake Cole

Coming of age niilista com direito a sadismo sociopata, terrorismo juvenil anticolonialista e garota badass controladora subvertendo relações de classe. Amém.

Arthur Tuoto

This is definitely a crazy movie, 1 of the darkest movies from Hong Kong for sure. The escalation of violence that increases throughout the film is quite terrifying. This movie includes a lot of disturbing/sadistic scenes, which definitely won't be for everyone. It's a good…

𝔻𝕚𝕖𝕘𝕠

The early, awful image of mice trapped in a cage, frantically running around, unable to go anywhere, and tortured by an exterior force, is the tone-setting metaphor for everything that follows. This film radiates with hatred and offers no hope, but remains compelling…

Will Sloan

“did they use real bombs?” “of course! you know those foreign white guys make realistic movies!” tsui hark‘s monumental career had a rocky start, the filmmaker didn’t receive widespread recognition until his third feature, dangerous encounters of the first kind. initially…

Christina