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Hong Kong 1941

Hong Kong 1941

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Status

Released

Release Date

Nov 2, 1984

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Action, War

User Score

59%

Original Title

等待黎明

Production Companies

D & B Films, Bo Ho Films

Director

Po-Chih Leong

Description

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.