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ONCE UPON TIME IN CHINA TOWN

By Tajona KARHU

TAJONA KARHU (INDEPENDENT) - as PROD

Action/Adventure - Pre-Production 2022

Sex worker Phuong Mee, one night is sexually assualted, snaps and goes on a killing spree through Chinatown, London. Is she a broken woman fighting to get her sense of control back or does she have a past she is hiding from.
'OLD BOY' MEETS 'GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO'
Rawness, action extravaganza.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Action/Adventure, Martial arts, Female director
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Budget
- 0 - 0.3 M$
- Duration
- 20 mn
- Director(s)
- Tajona KARHU
- Writer(s)
- Tajona KARHU, Guy WAINER
- Producer(s)
- Shawn DAWES
- Synopsis
- THE WORLD;
  
  Late night when you walk through Chinatown, you see the Asian women who stand in the door ways, dressed traditionally, full high end makeup but in heels, waiting in the doorway for no one no matter the time no matter the day, they are always ready to “massage”. Their personality aggressive but open if you are the right type of man, you're never allowed to make eye contact unless you're willing to pay for it, with your money or your life. Who are they?
  
  HER WORLD;
  
  Phuong Mee is not like that, she isn't aggressive and is fun loving, mid 20's +, an English/Asian sex worker/ dancer working in a London massage parlour/ shop run by a friend who is also her boss Johnny. Johnny who also owns the high end central London strip club Phuong Mee also dances in, is a similar aged self made business man raised in the UK with Asian heritage. He privately runs multiple successful businesses throughout London including a few massage parlours in china town, the last remaining secretly open street sex worker racket. Johnny is always hanging out in a karaoke bar in his free evenings. We think she is free loving and then we see her snap after being sexually assaulted by her boss's (Johnny) cousin, Sai, she kills him and she goes on a killing spree. Is she part of a carefree sexually liberated lifestyle she thought she was in control of or does she have a past, is she hiding something, how is she able to fight so well.
  A cold dark winter London night. A heavily breathing, out of breath Phuong Mee is sitting exhausted at an empty bus top, ruffled hair, covered in blood and sweat in her torn “massage shop” clothes, oversized black trench jacket, the steam radiates from her skin. We notice her neon pink blood stained 7 inch Pleaser heels. She is completely exhausted, struggling to hold herself up on the bus stop bench.
  Cut to black, Phuong Mee wakes up after being drugged and rape by Sai, they talk and she snaps and clumsily kills Sai.
  Confronted by Johnny's personal security guards after killing Sai, all Phunong Mee knows is she has to get out of there in one piece, she starts fighting through the night club rooms, first clumsily from the drugs wearing off and stumbling through her emotions processing what has happened, she then turns killer confronted by the final two security guards blocking her only way out to her nearest exit. The last of the security guards dead, she picks up one of their phones, a trench, a change of shoes and runs out of the exit. She pauses at a bus stop to reflect on where she is and what to do next, we hear the noise and hustle of more security guards coming after her. END.