On a rainy night, a murder shocks the entire city as Sister Feng is brutally slain... A master of fate, specializing in resolving "death calamities," gazes sorrowfully at the corpse. The young owner of a local tea restaurant, who was delivering food, stumbles upon the bloody scene, and the two unexpectedly meet at this moment! The master predicts that the young owner will be imprisoned for murder, so the young owner, resigned to fate, seeks the master's help to change his destiny. Meanwhile, a veteran detective is convinced that the young owner is a psychopath, believing he cannot escape his bloody nature. The master, however, insists that it is fate at work and not the young owner's fault. Despite employing all his feng shui techniques and Western and Eastern occult knowledge, the master realizes that fighting against fate is futile. In a moment of despair, the master is cornered by the veteran detective, the killer closes in step by step, and even the temptation of a young Sister Feng intensifies the young owner's murderous intent. With a steel knife already in his hand, he seems on the verge of plunging into the abyss of murder! On the brink of the master's mental collapse, the foretold catastrophe approaches! Is everything that unfolds simply a self-arrangement of fate, with humanity powerless to alter the myriad possible outcomes?
- Release Date2023 年 4 月 20 日
- Release Dates
- 2023 年 4 月 20 日
- 2023 年 6 月 30 日
- 2023 年 8 月 11 日
- 2023 年 8 月 11 日
- 2024 年 7 月 10 日
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In the early stages of production, the film received funding from the Film Development Fund's Film Production Financing Scheme, amounting to as much as HKD 7.1 million. However, the final film and its promotional materials did not mention the contribution from the Film Development Fund.
- Total Budget
- $910,000 USD
- Local Box Office$1,521,000 USD
- Runtime1 hour 48 minutes
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- Nominated
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Film (Nominated)
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Art Direction (Nominated)
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Cinematography (Nominated)
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Costume Design (Nominated)
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Action Design (Nominated)
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Sound Effects (Nominated)
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Visual Effects (Nominated)
- Won
- Best Director at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards in 2024
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Screenplay Yau Naihoi / Li Chunhui
- 2024 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards Best Editing David Richardson / Leung Chin Lun
- Film Festivals
- Special Screening section of the 73rd Berlin International Film Festival
- Opening film for the 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival
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"Mad Fate" is closely related to the ViuTV series "Three Destinies," which Johnnie To produced, with part of its story adapted from the 1982 "Rainy Night Butcher" Lam Kor-wan dismemberment case
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- IMDb Rating6.4