Peace Hotel (1995 film)

Ten years ago, Wong A-ping slaughters an entire troop of bandits himself earns the nickname, The Killer. He wife was killed during the chaos, but Wong ultimately spares a teenage member of the bandit.  Afterwards, sets up a Peace Hotel to act as a sanctuary for anyone who needs protecting. The Peace Hotel has a rule that nobody can harm a refuge who has reached into the hotel, but the hotel will also not fight for the refuges nor protect them to leave. One day, a penniless woman named Shau Shiu-man arrives at the hotel and claims the be an old lover of the owner of the hotel and fakes a story to the guests and workers of the hotel, and they give her free food and let her stay in Wong's room. When Wong arrives back in his room, Shau, who was bathing behind a curtain, lies to him claiming to be one of the Soong sisters and at the same time, the daughter of Emperor Zhao Bing, while unsuccessfully trying to con money from him. At the hotel's restaurant, Shau sees Wong in person the first time and tries to sell him some of his belongings she stole from his room and finally realizes who he is aftering seeing a picture of him in his pocketwatch that she stole and chokes on a sour plum she placed in her wine glass. Afterwards, Shau reveals that she is a clubgirl who is indebt and on the run after stabbing a loan shark in the buttocks twice. Wong refuses to let her stay in the and plans to send her off the next day.

Shau gambles with the guests and workers of the Peace Hotel all night until a group of bandits of the Grand Hall arrive and Wong forces her to reveal to him that the loan shark she stabbed died from his wounds. Wong walks outside to confront the bandits and its leader, Ting Moon, Shau shot their senior seven shots after stabbing him and stole 30 gold bars from them. However, Wong declares he would not allow anyone to cause trouble inside the Peace Hotel and kills one of the bandits who tried to attack him, while Ting is determined to kill Shau within 21 days and waits outside the hotel. Infuriated, Wong tells his workers and other guests that Shau is not his older lover she claims and they beat her and maker her work as their slave and torture her when she made some poor tasting food. Shau then unsuccessfully tries various ways to trick Wong into protecting her to leave, resulting continuously slapped by him, much to the delight to the workers and other guests of the hotel. One night, Shau forcibly tries to seduce Wong until he bites her lip, which then she rants that Wong's reputation as The Killer is a joke and does believe he can kill the all the bandits if they break in. Shortly after, Shau storms outside of the hotel and is relentlessly beaten by the bandit of the Grand Hall. Wong then grabs a flaming torch stick and beats the bandits and declares to Ting that he will kill anyone that dares to kill within the boundaries of the Peace Hotel like how he slaughtered the bandits ten years ago. Wong then brings the gravely wounded Shau back into the hotel and unsuccessfully tries to revive her with CPR until he picks out a sour plum stuck in her throat and she awakens.

The next day, the workers and guest of the Peace Hotel celebrate the departure of the Grand Hall bandits. While nursing Shau, Wong tells her his story how his warlord father taught him as a child killing s couple of people makes him a killer and killing thousands of people makes him a hero, which he finds out to be true after his father died when he was twelve and he killed seven adults who tourtured and beat him and nobody dared to bully him. As he grew up, he formed his own gang and become notorious for his many killings until his wife was killed ten years ago and tells Shau she is similar to his wife. At this time, two guests of the hotel leave because they do not agree with Wong's decision in saving Shau and were killed by bandits if the Grand Hall, who were still hiding nearby. While Wong was mourning the deaths of the two and forging iron blades for revenge, Shau begins to sing and reminds him of his dead wife and as times goes by, Wong and Shau's relationship blossoms.

The bandits of the Grand Hall once again and Wong embraces in one last dance with Shau before protecting her to leave. Although Shau is reluctant to leave, he eventually convinces her before coming back to confront Ting and allows Ting to beat him with his rifle. At this time, it is revealed that Wong used to be a former leader of the Grand Hall bandits who killed the entire gang when a couple of then betrayed him and Ting was the teenager that he sosfed fen years ago. Ting reveals Shau's real name is Lam Ling and is his mistress who slept with everyone in his gang and purposely sent her to the Peace Hotel causing Wong to break the rules of the hotel. Ting then declares he will launch a massacre in the Peace Hotel after sunset and warns anyone to leave the hotel before then if they to live. Out of fear for their lives, the guests and workers of the hotel leave but Ting does not keep his promise to spare them and prepares to shoot them until Shau arrive back in a horse. Ting then fires shot at Wong and a big battle occurs where Wong and Ting slaughters numerous bandits with their swords until fighting one another. Their swordfight leads them inside the hotel where Wong eventually kills Ting after kicking him into a bathtub. However, Wong was also gravely wounded and Shau unsuccessfully tries to revive him before leaving with his dead body. Afterwards, an adult Doggie, a child guest of the hotel during the events of the film, narrates how the other guests went their own ways afterwards and were killed by their enemies and later, he heard rumors that Wong was seen in North East China helping a young widow and her son in a hotel she operate and hopes the story is true despite seeing him die when he was a child.

• Chow Yun-fat as Wong A-ping (王阿平), infamously known as The Killer (殺人王), a former bandit and owner of the Peace Hotel.
• Cecilia Yip as Shau Siu-man (蕭小曼), originally named Lam Ling (藍玲), an indebt clubgirl and swindler seeking refuge at the Peace Hotel.
• Jacklyn Wu as A-ping's deceased wife. (guest star)
• Chin Ho as Ting Moon (丁滿), a high ranking bandit of the Grand Hall who was Wong's follower when he was a young teenager.
  • Sung Boon-chung as a young Ting Moon.
• Lau Shun as a blind musician who is a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Annabelle Lau as Skinny (奀妹), a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Lo Fan as Bitch (八婆), a worker of Peace Hotel and Doggie's mother.
• Mai Kei as a blind musician who is a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Joe Cheng as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Lee Siu-kei as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Victor Hon as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Nam Yin as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Terrence Fok as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Rankie Fung
• Gary Mak as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Yim Kong-ming as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Patrick Hon as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Heung Tip as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Yip Chi-hung as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Lam Wei-hau
• Four Tse as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Yu Ngai-ho as a blind musician and a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Chan Hing-hang as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Tang Cheung as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Yeung Wo as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Cheung Yuk-wah as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Choi Sai as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Bobby Yip as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Law Wai-kai as a guest of Peace Hotel.
• Leung Kei-hei as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• So Wai-nam as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Lam Kwok-kit as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Lui Siu-ming as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Kong Foo-keung as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Lee Tat-chiu as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Tsim Siu-ling as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Choi Kwok-ping as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Lui Ying as a bandit of Grand Hall.
• Lau Tung-ching as a bandit of Grand Hall.

• Peace Hotel at IMDb
• Peace Hotel at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase