Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper is Expensive (1989)
Genre : Crime, Comedy
Runtime : 1H 23M
Director : Wayne Wang
Synopsis
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
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