Sons of the Neon Night
Sons of the Neon Night — A Tale of Power, Faith, and Survival Beneath the Snow
📅 Hong Kong Release Date: October 1, 2025
🎥 Director: Juno Mak
🎭 Cast: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Sean Lau, Louis Koo, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Gao Yuanyuan
📽️ Genre: Crime / Action / Drama
In a city where neon glows through layers of fog and despair, the lines between justice and corruption have long disappeared.
Directed by Juno Mak, Sons of the Neon Night is a long-gestating Hong Kong crime epic — an unflinching exploration of human nature, power, and redemption set against an alternate 1994, where a relentless nuclear winter buries Hong Kong beneath the snow.
A hospital bombing triggers a chain reaction of murders, conspiracies, and political deception. As the blizzard engulfs the city, the powerful and the powerless —from police officers to gang leaders, doctors to politicians — find themselves trapped in a silent, invisible war for survival.
To recreate this haunting dystopia, the production team built a full-scale Causeway Bay under snow, mobilizing hundreds of crew members and top visual artists. Through their lens, the city becomes both stunning and suffocating — a portrait of decay and beauty colliding under the weight of moral collapse.
At the film’s center stands Lee Mo-tung (Takeshi Kaneshiro), a crime heir determined to end Hong Kong’s drug trade and “cleanse” the city from within. But in his pursuit of purity, he ignites a deeper chaos — discovering that good intentions can be just as destructive as evil itself.
Following his acclaimed debut Rigor Mortis, Juno Mak returns with a work that refuses to fit into any conventional genre. The film fuses crime, philosophy, and psychological warfare — not about who wins or loses, but about how far humanity can freeze before it breaks.
When reason is swallowed by power, and justice becomes a shifting illusion, who will still hold onto a spark of light in this storm?
More than ten years in the making, Sons of the Neon Night stands as one of Hong Kong’s most ambitious and debated works in recent years. Its stark visual style, sprawling world-building, and morally complex storytelling have sparked strong reactions from audiences and critics alike — a film that dares to question what it means to be human when faith, violence, and truth all blur into one.
October 1, 2025 The storm returns. When the snow falls over Hong Kong — will humanity burn, or turn to ice?