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