Arguably Chow's most accessible movie since Hustle.

It offers a visual reprieve from the cumbersomely mechanized aesthetic of so much contemporary fantasy.

You've already seen most of what Chow and his seven(!) co-screenwriters have crafted, and you've usually seen it with greater coherence and more impressive CGI.

This is a short, sweet and charmingly strange story populated by all manner of colourful characters, two-legged and otherwise.