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Drama

The Last Dance

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A debt-ridden wedding planner inadvertently becomes a successful funeral planner. However, he must convince a traditional Taoist priest of his legitimacy to continue operating in the field.

Release Date : 2024-11-09

Language :Cantonese

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Emperor Motion PicturesAlibaba Pictures Group

Production Country : Hong KongChina

Alternative Titles :

Cast

Michael Hui Koon-Man

Character Name : Kwok Man

Original Name : 許冠文

Gender : Male

Dayo Wong Chi-Wah

Character Name : Dominic Ngai To-sang

Original Name : 黃子華

Gender : Male

Michelle Wai Si-Nga

Character Name : Kwok Man-yuet

Original Name : 衛詩雅

Gender : Female

Tommy Chu Pak-Hong

Character Name : Kwok Chi-Bun

Original Name : 朱栢康

Gender : Male

Catherine Chau

Character Name : Jane

Original Name : 周家怡

Gender : Female

Paul Chun Pui

Character Name : Uncle Ming

Original Name : 秦沛

Gender : Male

Elaine Jin Yan-Ling

Character Name : Tsang Suk-lin

Original Name : Elaine Jin

Gender : Female

Rosa Maria Velasco

Character Name : Ms. Yen

Original Name : Rosa Maria Velasco

Gender : Female

Rachel Leung

Character Name : So So

Original Name : Rachel Leung

Gender : Female

Michael Ning

Character Name : Mr. Lai

Original Name : 白只

Gender : Male

Chung Suet-Ying

Character Name : Suey

Original Name : 鍾雪瑩

Gender : Female

Edward Ma

Character Name : ER Doctor

Original Name : Edward Ma

Gender : Male

Elly Lam

Character Name : Doctor's Wife

Original Name : Elly Lam

Gender : Female

Polly Lau

Character Name : Mrs. Chu

Original Name : 劉若寶

Gender : Female

Thor Lok

Character Name : Lam Wing-on

Original Name : Thor Lok

Gender : Male

Kiki Cheung Hoi-Kei

Character Name : Bun's Wife

Original Name : Kiki Cheung Hoi-Kei

Gender : Female

Katrina Chan Pei-Shin

Character Name : Hei-man

Original Name : Katrina Chan Pei-Shin

Gender : Female

Vernon Fong

Character Name : Mr.Chu

Original Name : 方志駒

Gender : Male

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-12-01

"Dominic" (Dayo Wong) is struggling to make ends meet, post COVID, with his business in tatters and his repayment bills at almost $13,000 per month. He's not afraid of hard work, though, so when his "Uncle Ming" (Paul Chun) offers him his share in a funeral parlour he jumps at the chance. His partner - rather sarcastically referred to as "Hello Man" (Michael Hui) comes across as a rather curmudgeonly fellow - a traditionalist Taoist priest who lives with his ambulance-driving daughter "Yuet" (Michelle Wai) and his favourite son "Ben" (Pak Hon Chu) who is attempting to follow in his father's footsteps. Thing is, in his excitement to get the job done and to make enough money to clear his debts, he makes quite a few schoolboy errors at the start that are way more lively to offend the ancestors than send them peaceably on their way to the next life, and that just irks the older man who feels his new pal is disrespectful. As the story unfolds, we follow a young man who learns a little more about a business that is really anything but. At times this is quite a funny story, with a special appearance by a full-sized, papier-mâché, yellow Maserati rather summing up the ineptness of "Dominic" as he strives for success, but that humour rather quickly evaporates leaving us with a familial drama the can be quite poignant at times as it looks at the restricting roles for women and the hereditary responsibility of sons. Given the professions of the characters, grief is never far away and we focus quiet tenderly at times at just how people come to terms with that - or not, whilst we also try to reconcile just how families themselves change from generation to generation, with some tough decisions having to be made that centre around "Ben" and his need to look forward and not back. The acting is engaging and the dialogue well written, allowing the action to do plenty of the work without subjecting us to a constant surfeit of chatter, and it handles the topic of death and the provisions we make to deal with it and it's aftermath sensitively.