Underplayed Gems

Love Is a Gun (2023)

Love Is a Gun poster
Original title
愛是一把槍
Directed by
Lee Hong-chi
Genre
drama
Country
Taiwan
Runtime
1h 21m
Rated
IIB
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 2 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
The 3D catalogue: film cases on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

More films like thisWatch the trailer

or watch the trailer on YouTube

How it feels

A young man in coastal Taiwan struggles to escape his past as he gets pulled back into a world of petty crime and debt. The film follows his tense relationships with a former lover and a local gangster.

bleaktenseintimatemelancholicslow-burngrittyvisceralrestless

What happens

Love Is a Gun (Chinese: 愛是一把槍, "Ai shi yi ba qiang") is a 2023 crime drama film co-written and directed by Lee Hong-chi in his directorial debut. A Taiwanese-Hong Kong co-production, the film premiered at the 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival, in the Venice International Critics' Week sidebar, where it was awarded the Lion of the Future Award for a Debut Film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? You can browse by genre, country and year, or take this one into the 3D catalogue and ask the Catbot for something closer.