The Great Buddha+(HKAFF 2017)

With the help of Chung Mong-hong, who co-produces and serves as DP for this dark comedy, documentarian Huang Hsin-yao expanded his Golden Horse-nominated short The Great Buddha into his first narrative feature, which won the Grand Prize at the Taipei Film Festival. Pickle, a night security guard at a statue factory, and his buddy Belly Button pass their time watching TV and flipping through porn mags. When the TV breaks, they turn to an alternative source of salacious entertainment: their boss’s dashboard camera footage. They have fun peeking into their boss’s private life until they stumble on a shocking secret that links to a series of outrageous events involving crime, corruption, a giant buddha statue and the many follies of men.