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2006 Hong Kong/Thailand film

Re-cycle
The Singaporean Re-cycle poster.
Directed by	The Pang Brothers
Written by	The Pang Brothers Cub Chin Sam Lung Thomas Pang
Starring	Angelica Lee Lawrence Chou Siu-Ming Lau Rain Li
Distributed by	Matching Motion Pictures Universe Entertainment
Release dates	1 July 2006 (2006-07-01) (Hong Kong) 6 July 2006 (2006-07-06) (Singapore) 14 July 2006 (2006-07-14) (Taiwan)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	Hong Kong/Thailand
Language	Cantonese
Budget	200 million baht
Box office	$2,263,016

Re-cycle (Cantonese: 鬼域 Gwai wik) is a 2006 horror film directed by the Pang Brothers and starring Angelica Lee. The film was the closing film in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. It was also a reunion for the Pangs and the actress Lee, who starred in the Pangs' 2002 hit The Eye. It is a Hong Kong/Thai co-production.

Plot

Ting-yin, a young novelist, is struggling to come up with a follow-up to her best-selling trilogy of romance novels. She has not even started on the book yet and her agent has already announced that the next title, The Recycle, will deal with the supernatural.

After drafting her first chapter, she stops and deletes the file from her computer. She then starts seeing strange, unexplainable things and finds that she is experiencing the supernatural events that she described in her novel-to-be.

Cast

Controversy

Ting-yin finds herself in a parallel universe where abandoned things end up, including aborted fetuses, which combined with the portrayal of the main character's personal demons regarding her own aborted child leads some critics to believe the film carries an anti-abortion message. "That just happens to be one of the topics in the movie. We are not out to say if abortion is right or wrong", Oxide Pang said in one interview.

References

Cited by film's distributor during a press conference on 15 September 2006 in Bangkok.
"Re-cycle".
"Festival de Cannes: Re-cycle". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 14 December 2009.
Tan, Jeanine (6 July 2006), "It's a horror film, not a crusade", Channel NewsAsia.

External links

Re-cycle at IMDb
Re-cycle at Rotten Tomatoes
Re-cycle at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival

v t e Films directed by the Pang brothers
The Eye	The Eye (2002) The Eye 2 (2004) The Eye 10 (2005) The Child's Eye (2010)
Other films	Bangkok Dangerous (1999) Omen (2003) Re-cycle (2006) The Messengers (2007) Bangkok Dangerous (2008) The Storm Warriors (2009) Out of Inferno (2013)
Oxide Pang	Who Is Running? (1997) One Take Only (2001) Bangkok Haunted (2001) The Tesseract (2003) Ab-normal Beauty (2004) Diary (2006) The Detective (2007) Basic Love (2009) The Detective 2 (2011) Sleepwalker (2011) Conspirators (2013) Detective Gui (2015) My War (2016) The Big Call (2017) High Forces (TBD)
Danny Pang	Nothing to Lose (2002) Leave Me Alone (2004) Forest of Death (2007) In Love with the Dead (2007) Fairy Tale Killer (2012) The Strange House (2015) The Mirror (2015) Blind Spot (2015) Delusion (2016)

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