The Nameless

The Nameless is about a person known as Lai Teck, which was one of the 50 known aliases of the Secretary- General of the Malayan Communist Party from 1939 to 1947, when he was killed in Thai-land, after being exposed as a triple agent – working first for the French then British secret forces, then with the Japanese Kempeitai during the years of the Malayan Occupation.
But The Nameless is also about cinema, and acting. Of all the great cinematic cultures of the world, it is perhaps Hong Kong cinema that has shown a most intense fascination with ‘compromised’ indi-viduals, as evident from the constant stream of Hong Kong films about ‘stool pigeons’, ‘double-agents’, ‘informers’ and ‘traitors’.

A film about a shapeshifter, told through a series detoured images, featuring an actor from a land of manifold allegiance, told through multiple languages.