A wedding planner turned undertaker struggles to win over a Taoist priest in writer-director Anselm Chan’s drama with hidden depths

A Hong Kong wedding planner whose business was scuppered by Covid, Dominic (Dayo Wong) finds a new career in the funeral business. It turns out that he has a flair for the death industry, but there’s just one problem: he needs to win over Master Man (Michael Hui), a cantankerous and conservative Taoist priest.

This likable Cantonese-language comedy drama starts out as an odd couple story but evolves into something more complex and satisfying: a film about tradition, gender roles and family tensions, with Master Man’s straight-talking paramedic daughter Yuet (Michelle Wai, impressive) increasingly taking a central role in the story. It’s worth watching, for the strong performances across the board and for the sensitively handled insights into Taoist death rituals.

In UK and Irish cinemas