Sons of the Neon Night | Juno Mak

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Expected to premiere at Cannes 2025

Hong Kong artist, musician, fashion designer and filmmaker Juno Mak has been working on Sons of the Neon Night for the past decade. Various aspects of the project have piqued the curiosity of film buffs. The highly stylized crime drama takes place in a snow-blanketed, pseudo-futuristic version of Hong Kong and stars many of the city’s biggest names: Takeshi Kaneshiro, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Sean Lau, Louis Koo and Ritchie Jen, among others. The film reportedly had a budget of $50 million, making it one of the most expensive movies in Hong Kong cinema history. It also features a new score from the late, great Ryuichi Sakamoto. Mak impressed critics with his action-horror debut Rigor Mortis in 2013. Sons of the Neon Night was announced as his follow-up in 2015. Now, finally, it’s nearly here — and sources in the Hong Kong industry say hopes are high it will unfurl in Cannes, perhaps in a midnight screening section like the Hong Kong action throwback Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In last year.