Life is Cheap...But Toilet Paper is Expensive
Streaming video - 1989
Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress. 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 humor and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s.
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- Feature films
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Arbelos Films
1989.
2024. - Language
- English
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- A Kanopy streaming video
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- Title from title frames.
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In Process Record. - Physical Description
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (85 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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- AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).