Hong Kong 1941

Hong Kong 1941

1984 · 100 min · ★ 6.3 · Action, War

Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam, young, attractive, daughter of a wealthy rice merchant, and prey to painful, disabling seizures. Her boyhood friend is Coolie Keung, whose family used to have wealth; he's now impoverished, a tough kid, a leader, in love with her. Into the mix steps Fay, cool and resourceful, an actor from the north, intent on getting to Gold Mountain in the US or Australia. They form a threesome, but the day they are to leave Hong Kong, the invasion stops them. Fay must rescue Keung from collaborators, Nam falls in love with Fay, and danger awaits their next attempt to escape.

Directed by Leong Po-Chih · Written by John Chan Koon-Chung

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Chow Yun-Fat Yip Kim-Fay
Alex Man Chi-Leung Wong Hak-Keung
Cecilia Yip Tung Ha Yuk-Nam
Ku Feng Shiu
Shih Kien Ha Chung-Sang
Paul Chun Pui Sergeant Wing
Wu Ma Chairman Liu
Stuart Yung Sai-Kit General Kanezawa
Angela Yu Chien Fei's Aunt
Hon Yee-Sang Fei's Uncle
Billy Lau Nam-Kwong Foreman
Chu Tau Liu's Man

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