MAY 10 - Saturday - 7:30pm
(Film)  Mad Detective (Sun taam)

Hong Kong 2007

Directors: Johnnie To, Wai Ka-fai 
Cast: Lau Ching-wan, Andy On, Lam Ka Tung, Gordon Lam, Kelly Lin

Honk Kong action icon Johnnie To (Election) and frequent collaborator Wai Ka-fai (Running on Karma) 
co-direct this complex, edge-of-your-seat tale of crime and madness. Hotshot Regional Crime Unit Inspector Ho 
(Andy On) has been investigating, with little success, a series of heists and murders apparently connected to 
a missing police pistol and its vanished owner. Ho figures his last chance at cracking the case is to enlist the 
help of his mentor and former boss Bun (Lau Ching-wan), who was recognized as a preternaturally gifted 
criminal profiler — until he went mad several years ago. (Bun, at a superior’s farewell party, sliced off his 
own ear and offered it as a present.) Bun has the gift to see into a person’s "inner personalities," or hidden 
demons. For Bun, this is the key to unlocking a killer’s identity, for it is these demons that expose a criminal’s 
real intentions, allowing Bun to solve mysteries that no-one else can. Five years into his forced retirement, 
Bun is convinced to return by Ho, who is desperate to solve the case and move forward in his career. 
But Ho’s belief in Bun’s abilities is soon tested by the retired detective’s increasingly bizarre and irrational 
behaviour. Is Bun really crazy, or just crazy like a fox? 

Colour, DVD, in Cantonese with English subtitles. 89 mins.

Post-screening discussion with Dr. Hiram Mok.

Dr. Mok is a Clinical Associate Professor with the UBC Department of Psychiatry. He serves as a 
Consultant Psychiatrist at the UBC Mood Disorder Centre and the VGH Cross Cultural Outpatient Clinic, 
where he provides care to Cantonese-speaking patients. He is actively involved in clinical patient care, 
teaching, and research.

Co-sponsored by the Chinese Mental Health Program, Canadian Mental Health Association, Vancouver-Burnaby Branch; 
the UBC Dept of Psychiatry Cross-Cultural Psychiatry Program; and S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

TICKETS: $9.50 adult, $8 seniors/students. 18+. $3 
Pacific Cinematheque membership required.


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