It says a lot about society today that Derek Yee Tung- sing's Protege is scheduled for release during the Lunar New Year.
The high-profile film, starring Andy Lau Tak-wah as a drug baron, is a gripping cop-versus-gangster action drama that focuses on the plight of drug addicts.
Our parents' generation would avoid watching films about death or anything considered unlucky. But today's young people don't adhere to such traditional beliefs.
'The action follows the drama. Yee explained to me the flow of the scenes, and why the characters behave in certain ways,' said Chin Ka-lok, the action choreographer of Protege.
'Why do they [the drug traffickers] jump eight floors [to evade the police]? Because they would be sentenced to 20 or 30 years in jail [if they got caught].'
For the more traditional movie-goers, comedian Ronald Cheng Chung-kei's directorial debut, It's A Wonderful Life, is a good choice.