Inside Kowloon Walled City, late 1980s, ultra-realistic handheld one-take. A restaurant worker hurries through impossibly narrow, crowded corridors carrying a huge bowl of boiling soup. Residents press themselves against the damp walls to let him pass. He ducks beneath dripping pipes, squeezes past hanging laundry, and leaps over children playing mahjong on the floor. The maze feels claustrophobic, noisy, and alive. He reaches a cramped apartment doorway and hands over the soup just as the lights suddenly cut out, plunging everything into darkness. Oppressive realism, fluorescent lighting, wet concrete, exposed wires, Cantonese shouting, clattering dishes, echoing footsteps, tense cinematic pacing. No cyberpunk, no stylization, documentary-like realism.