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Release year: 2015

Storyline

A year after his wife's murder, once-successful Hong Kong businessman Leonard To (Jason Tobin) is still reeling from the tragedy. Having lost his job, friends, and all sense of order in his life, Leonard becomes obsessed with a mysterious stranger he sees at his wife's grave, believing him to be responsible for her death.

Top credits

Directors

Dax Phelan

Writers

Cast

Jason Tobin — Leonard To
Byron Mann — The Suspect
Sarah Lian — Anna
Eugenia Yuan — Grace

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Did you know

• When Leonard sneaks into the suspect's apartment at the midpoint of the film, Dax Phelan decided to reveal important clues to the story's central mystery in a Cantonese-language voicemail message heard briefly in the background. According to Phelan, the reason for this was because he wanted Cantonese speakers and non-Cantonese speakers to experience the second half of the film completely differently upon their first viewing.

• From its inception, Jasmine was designed to reward repeat viewing. Despite the low budget, director Dax Phelan insisted that every element (e.g. script, acting, editing, music, sound, etc.) operate on two levels simultaneously, in order to satisfy both first-time and repeat viewers. Of his experience working on the film, composer Shie Rozow joked, "I basically had to do two scores for the price of none."

• Inspired by Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window" and "Vertigo," Dax Phelan employed the technique of limited perspective, in order to control the exposition and create suspense. As a result, Jason Tobin ("Leonard To") appears in every scene in the film and every shot, except for those which are cutaways from Leonard To's point of view.