A prize-winning box office hit from leading Hong Kong director Johnnie To (Election, Breaking News) in collaboration with Wai Ka Fai, Mad Detective puts a giddy spin on the police film genre. It stars Lau Ching Wan as Inspector Bun, a gifted, if unconventional, detective who is sacked after cutting off his ear and presenting it to his chief as a gift, but then rescued from his enforced retirement by a young hotshot cop who goes to him for help in solving an intractable case.


Bun favours intuition over logic, imagining himself into other people’s minds – he forms his hands into a gun and pretends to shoot people, has himself thrown down stairs in a suitcase, and is buried alive.