Mak was convicted and sentenced to death in 1983 for the Wah Mee massacre, in which 13 people were robbed, hog-tied and fatally shot execution-style in the once-bustling Chinatown gambling club.

Juno Mak on his star-driven Cannes Midnight Screenings drama ‘Sons of the Neon Night’: ‘my aim was to create a unique world with its own rules’ ...