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Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
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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.
Special Features:
- 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
- New English subtitle translation
- Limited edition booklet with new writing by Aliza Ma
- Arbelos
- 85
- Wayne Wang
- Lo Wai, Cora Miao, Bonnie Ngai, John Chan, Cheng Wan Kin, Kwan-Min Cheng, Allen Fong, Rocky Wing Cheung Ho, Angela Yu Chien
- English
- 1
Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
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Blu-ray
RRP £24.99
£17.99
Save: £7.00
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Release Date: 21 July 2025
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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.
Special Features:
- 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
- New English subtitle translation
- Limited edition booklet with new writing by Aliza Ma
- Arbelos
- 85
- Wayne Wang
- Lo Wai, Cora Miao, Bonnie Ngai, John Chan, Cheng Wan Kin, Kwan-Min Cheng, Allen Fong, Rocky Wing Cheung Ho, Angela Yu Chien
- English
- 1
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