This innovative pastiche of pulp, pop art and social commentary is a landmark of contemporary Chinese cinema. When a gangster’s driver absconds with one million yuan from his boss to pay for his girlfriend's plastic surgery mistakes, a wild chase ensues over one rainy night. Peppered with wry dark humor, its labyrinthine pitfalls and double-crosses is headlined by a motley cast of characters straight out of central casting. Three years in the making and almost single-handedly animated by Liu Jian, it is a spartan yet strikingly animated neo-noir that takes to task modern fissures of Chinese society and materialism.