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Chez n' Ham (1993)
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Original name: 芝士火腿
Genre: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Cheese and Ham are two men with nothing better to do in their lives. Until they meet a man dying of throat cancer who will pay the two men a large sum of money to kill a woman, whom he wants dead. The problem? She is the hottest chick, the two men have ever seen, and they are having a very difficult time trying to kill her.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, tragicomedy, ironic, bleak, neo noir, crime drama
Plot:
hitman, moral ambiguity, manipulation, desperation, greed, sexual obsession, sexual tension, assassination, anti hero, violence, betrayal, satire, male friendship, street life, existentialism, fatal attraction, bodyguard, maid, rich woman, friendship between men, absurd humor, adult as child, woman with glasses, male in bathtub, anti heroes
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