Hong Kong: The cast and director of the violent Hong Kong gangster movie Election and its sequel released 400 fish into the sea in a Buddhist ceremony to improve their karma after filming bloody scenes, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Apple Daily newspaper ran a photo of director Johnnie To, actors Simon Yam, Louis Koo, Lam Ka-tung and Lam Suet lined up at the back of a boat, hands clasped in prayer position.
Other pictures showed Koo clutching a basket of fish, preparing to dump them into the sea, and Yam removing a fish from a fish tank with a net.
The daily quoted director To as saying the cast also set birds free when the filming of the sequel to Election began.
”We're just doing what we're supposed to do,” To said.
Election, screened at Cannes last year, is the story of a gangster leadership race. Among its graphic scenes, one gang leader pounds a rival to death with a stone. In another scene, a gangster puts two fellow mobsters in wooden crates and rolls them down a mountain.
Election 2, which will also be screened at Cannes this year is reportedly even bloodier, with cannibalism involved.
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