One Nite in Mongkok

One Nite in Mongkok is a 2004 Hong Kong crime drama film written and directed by Derek Yee and starring Daniel Wu, Cecilia Cheung and Alex Fong. The film is a sequel to the Yee-produced 2000 film Double Tap, with Fong reprising his role from the previous installment. A sequel to the film, Triple Tap, was released in 2010, which was once again directed by Yee and featured Fong reprising his role, while also starring Wu in a different role.

Cast

Daniel Wu as Lin Lai-fu
Cecilia Cheung as Dandan
Alex Fong as Milo / Miu Chi-sun
Anson Leung as Beel
Chin Ka-lok as Brandon
Cha Chuen-yee as Head of Anti-vice Unit
Alexander Chan as Wah
Monica Chan as Milo's wife
Paul Che as Shitty Kong
Henry Fong as Carl
Christie Fung as Sue
Cynthia Ho as Jane
Elena Kong as Nightclub Lady
Lam Suet as Liu
Lawrence Lau as Fatty – nightclub manager
Sam Lee as Franky
Ng Shui-ting as Kinson
Paw Hee-ching as Volunteer helper at Sue's home
Eddie Pang as Tiger
Sun Limin as Tim
Redbean Lau as Tim's wife
Austin Wai as Milo's superior
Ken Wong as Wilson

Reception

Film critic Derek Elley praised the film as a "crackerjack crimer", seeing it as a return by Derek Yee to the grittier style of People’s Hero and "away from the gentler relationship movies for which he’s better known". Elley also noted the film being set during a "nervous period prior to Hong Kong’s handover to China", just before Christmas in 1996. In a paper for Western Sydney University, Hilary Hongjin He opined that this date was chosen to appease the censors for the film's mainland Chinese release, as it helped "pretend that all things bad happened in the ‘corrupted’ British Hong Kong era."