Underplayed Gems

Amphetamine (2010)

Amphetamine poster
Original title
安非他命
Directed by
Scud
Genre
drama film, LGBTQ-related film
Country
Hong Kong
Runtime
1h 37m
Rated
NR
Rating
5.7 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A fitness trainer in Hong Kong meets a business executive and they begin a relationship. The film shows their personal struggles and the social taboos they face.

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What happens

Amphetamine (Chinese: 安非他命; Jyutping: on1 fei1 taa1 ming6) is a 2010 Hong Kong film starring Byron Pang and Thomas Price. It revolves around the story of an ethnic Chinese fitness trainer, Kafka, who meets Daniel, a business executive. The film is directed by acclaimed Hong Kong Chinese filmmaker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It was nominated for a Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival of 2010. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes. It is the third of seven publicly released films by Scud. The six other films are: City Without Baseball in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, Voyage in 2013, Utopians in 2015 and Thirty Years of Adonis in 2017. The eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was the ninth, Bodyshop, but neither has yet been released. The tenth and final film, Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe, is currently in production. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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