YMMV / Hong Kong 1941

• Complete Monster: Chairman Liu Yen-Mao is a wealthy local tycoon who, in the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong, joins the invaders. Earning himself a comfortable position of luxury as the recruiter for construction of Southeast Asia's notorious Death Railway, Liu had a hundred civilians delivered overseas every month to be worked to the bone until they died of exhaustion, while also having attempted escapees and suspected resistance members tortured, with Liu's favourite method of interrogation being having firecrackers shoved into a victim's ears butt-first, and the fuse lit—a punishment Liu had carried out on countless captives. When the hero Wong Hak-Keung tries stopping Liu from punishing two of his friends, Liu orders his guards to restrain Wong, confiscate his dowry, and put him through the same firecracker torture for no reason other than sheer sadism.
• Nightmare Fuel: Three words: Firecracker Torture Party. It's Chairman Liu's designated method of interrogating prisoners or torturing escapees, which involves having sticks of firecrackers shoved butt-first into an unfortunate captive's ear, and then the wick lit. We see this happening onscreen twice, once to the hero Keung, and the dialogue made it clear Chairman Liu had done this several times.
• Special Effects Failure: The Japanese Colonel Keung hurls off a balcony is a ridiculously fake and super-obvious dummy, whose arms and legs twists motionlessly as it falls.
• Tearjerker: When Kim-fay decides to perform his Heroic Sacrifice so that the rest of the refugees can escape the Japanese.