Country: Russia
Year: 2005
Duration: 101'
The time has come, as it does every two years, for the senior members of Hong Kong's oldest Triad, The Wo Shing Society, to elect a new chairman. Fierce rivalries emerge between the two eligible candidates. Lok, respected by the Uncles is the favourite to win. But his rival Big D will stop at nothing to change this. When Wo Shing's ancient symbol of leadership, the Dragon's Head Baton, goes missing, a ruthless struggle for power erupts and the race to retrieve the Baton threatens to tear Wo Shing in two. "Election offers a realistic look of what it means to be a gangster in Hong Kong today: people are being consumed by greed and power. Through the rivalry between the two candidates we see tradition and discipline begin to disintegrate as individual ambition and greed take over. Ancient ceremony and blood oaths no longer occupy any importance beyond symbolic formality." (J. To)
Biography
film director
Johnnie To
Johnnie
To (Hong
Kong, 1955), began working in 1972 at the
television network TVB, where he became director, screenwriter and
television
producer. In 1980 he directed his first film, The
Enigmatic
Case, but the poor box office returns convinced him to return
to television,
where he remained until 1986, the year he directed the film Happy
Ghost 3.
He achieved commercial success with films like All About Ah
Long (1989)
and The Heroic Trio (1992) During the
1990’s, To founded the production
house Milkyway Image, which made a name for itself with its gangster
movies. in
2004 he presented at
FILMOGRAFIA
Bi
shui han shan duo ming jin (The Enigmatic Case,
1980), Kai
xin gui zhuang gui (Happy