Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (Region B)
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao) – independent filmmaking legend Wayne Wang’s Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive barrels through inspired genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu-fiction and fierce political jeremiad, all with a keen sense of humour and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s.
- New 4K restoration from the original 35mm colour interpositive
- New video interview with director Wayne Wang
- New video interview with co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako & Wang
- Original full-length chase sequence
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (Region B)
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao) – independent filmmaking legend Wayne Wang’s Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive barrels through inspired genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu-fiction and fierce political jeremiad, all with a keen sense of humour and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s.
- New 4K restoration from the original 35mm colour interpositive
- New video interview with director Wayne Wang
- New video interview with co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako & Wang
- Original full-length chase sequence
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao) – independent filmmaking legend Wayne Wang’s Life is Cheap… But Toilet Paper is Expensive barrels through inspired genre deconstruction, guerrilla docu-fiction and fierce political jeremiad, all with a keen sense of humour and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s.
- New 4K restoration from the original 35mm colour interpositive
- New video interview with director Wayne Wang
- New video interview with co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako & Wang
- Original full-length chase sequence
- Trailer
- Newly improved English subtitle translation
