There's rhyme and reason to Office madness

OFFICE, a movie that deliberates hard truths about corporate culture while distancing itself from established cinematic norms, springs from the fertile imagination of Johnnie To, a director who relishes the opportunity to mix and match genres to create something completely different. His latest boundary-pushing effort is a playful yet sharply-observed musical-comedy-drama about the machinations within a Hong Kong conglomerate.

The film is adapted from Design for Living, a 2009 play by actress Sylvia Chang, who also wrote the script and has a major role as a corporate chiefta…