Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive

Exploding a seemingly simple premise – a nameless “cowboy” courier (Spencer Nakasako) arrives in pre-Handover Hong Kong to deliver a mysterious briefcase to a mercurial Mob boss whilst becoming entangled with his femme fatale mistress (Cora Miao) – 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 humour and one of the richest visual palettes of the 1990s.

LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FEATURES

• New 4K restoration from the original 35mm colour interpositive
• New video interview with director Wayne Wang
• New video interview with co-writer/co-director Spencer Nakasako & Wang
• Original full-length chase sequence
• Trailer
• Newly improved English subtitle translation
• Limited edition booklet with new writing by Aliza Ma
• Limited edition slipcover - exclusive to radiancefilms.co.uk

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Year: 1989
Country: USA
Cert: 18
Format: Blu-ray
Region: B
ARB001BDLE
EAN: 5060974680832
Release date: 21/07/25