A broken champ, a hopeful kid, and the fight that actually matters: showing up for dinner.
Wah Sang was a boxing champion seven years ago. He now works at a garage and cares for his seven-year-old son Henry. They live a small apartment and Wah spends much of his time gambling and drinking. Henry wants Wah, whom he addresses by that name him to return to boxing, but Wah is hesitant because he suffered a brain injury.
Acting
Yuen Biao's weathered stillness—action star turned wounded father.
Direction
Ivan Lai finds poetry in cramped apartments and garage grease.
Director
Ivan Lai Kai-Ming
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Yuen Biao, one of the 'Seven Little Fortunes' alongside Jackie Chan and Sammo Hung, rarely got lead dramatic roles—this was a deliberate career stretch at age 47.
The film captures early-2000s Hong Kong economic anxiety post-handover, where former champions literally became mechanics and fathers couldn't afford dignity.
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