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Life Without Principle is a 2011 Hong Kong crime drama film produced and directed by Johnnie To[1] and starring Lau Ching-wan, Richie Jen and Denise Ho. This film was screened in competition at the 68th Venice Film Festival on 9 September 2011.[2][3] The North America distribution rights was purchased by Indomina Group shortly after the Festival. The deal was made between Indomina and the film's sales agent Media Asia Group.[4]

Life Without Principle
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Simplified	夺命金
Mandarin	Duó Mìng Jīn
Cantonese	Dyut6 Ming1 Gam1
Directed by	Johnnie To
Screenplay by	Au Kin-yee Ben Wong Milkyway Creative Team
Produced by	Johnnie To
Starring	Lau Ching-wan Richie Jen Denise Ho
Cinematography	Cheng Siu-Keung To Hung-mo
Edited by	Allen Leung
Music by	Yue Wei
Production companies	Media Asia Films Milkyway Image
Distributed by	Media Asia Distributions
Release dates	9 September 2011 (2011-09-09) (Venice Film Festival) 20 October 2011 (2011-10-20) (Hong Kong)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$8.43 million CNY25 million

The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist.[5]

Cast

• Lau Ching-wan as Panther (三腳豹)
• Richie Jen as Senior Inspector Cheung Ching-fong (張正方)
• Denise Ho as Teresa Chan
• Myolie Wu as Connie
• Lo Hoi-pang as Chung Yuen (鍾原)
• So Hang-suen as Cheng Siu-kuen (鄭小娟)
• Philip Keung as Dragon (凸眼龍)
• Cheung Siu-fai as Ng Yiu-wah (吳耀華)
• Felix Wong as Sam (火爆森)
• Wong Chi-yin as Sergeant Lee Chi-man (李致文)
• Stephanie Che as Jackie
• JJ Jia as Ms. Ho (何小姐)
• Yoyo Chen as T.T. Chau
• Terence Yin as Mr. Sung (宋先生)
• Tam Ping-man as Lai Kwan (黎坤)
• Lee Siu-kei as Brother Sai (西哥)
• Frankie Ng as Brother B (B哥)
• Alan Chui Chung-San as Sung's Thug
• Law Wing-cheung as Master Wing (榮師傅)
• Vincent Sze as East Kowloon Anti-Crime Unit officer
• Anson Leung as Kwan Tat-man (關達文)
• Ellesmere Choi as Short film narrator

Awards and nominations

31st Hong Kong Film Awards

Won

• Best Supporting Actor (Lo Hoi-pang)
• Best Supporting Actress (So Hang-suen)

Nominated

• Best Film
• Best Director (Johnnie To)
• Best Screenplay (Yau Nai-hoi, Yip Tin-shing, Ben Wong, Jeff Cheung)
• Best Actor (Lau Ching-wan)
• Best Editing (David M. Richardson)
• Best Original Song

48th Golden Horse Awards

Won

• Best Actor (Sean Lau)
• Best Director (Johnnie To)
• Best Original Screenplay (Yau Nai-hoi, Yip Tin-shing, Ben Wong, Jeff Cheung)

Nominated

• Best Film
• Best Actress (Denise Ho)
• Best Film Editing (David M. Richardson)

See also

• List of submissions to the 85th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
• List of Hong Kong submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

References

External links

• Official website
• Life Without Principle at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Life Without Principle at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• Life Without Principle at IMDb

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