Mr. Sardine (1994)
Derek Chiu Sung-kei directs this low-budget yarn about a mild-mannered grocery store clerk named Sardine (Dayo Wong Chi-wah) who lives a highly ordered life in an apartment filled with canned goods. His equilibrium is smashed when his landlady evicts him to make way for her daughter Anna (Irene Wan Pik-ha) to move in. When the middle-aged woman keels over from a bad combination of Panadol and liquor, Sardine believes that he is responsible for her death and tries to hide the body. Trouble ensues when Anna finds the corpse in Sardine's apartment while Sardine contends with a devious fellow employee who tries to get him canned from the supermarket.
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Plot so thin, it passes unnoticed.
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
It's a mild crowd pleaser for people who are exhausted by blockbusters.
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.