Made in Hong Kong
Traditional Chinese香港製造
Simplified Chinese香港制造
Literal meaningHong Kong manufacture
Hanyu PinyinXiānggǎng zhìzào
JyutpingHoeng1 Gong2 zai3 zou6
Directed byFruit Chan
Written byFruit Chan
Produced byAndy Lau
Doris Yang Ziming
StarringSam Lee
Yim Hui-Chi
Wenders Li
Tam Ka-Chuen
CinematographyLam Wah-Chuen
O Sing-Pui
Music byLam Wah-Chuen
Release date
  • 9 October 1997 (1997-10-09) (Hong Kong)
Running time
108 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box office$17,255[1]

Made in Hong Kong (香港製造) is a 1997 Hong Kong drama film written and directed by Fruit Chan, executive produced and produced by Andy Lau and starring Sam Lee, Yim Hui-Chi, Wenders Li, and Tam Ka-Chuen. It won the Best Picture Award at the 1998 Hong Kong Film Awards along with 13 other wins and 6 nominations. The film was selected as the Hong Kong entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 71st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[2][3]

Much of the film is set in public housing estates, which Chan considered to be "a very Hong Kong thing" due to the high population density of the territory.[4] Though the film is sometimes regarded as a response to the 1997 Hong Kong handover, Chan feels that Made in Hong Kong can also be viewed as a character-driven drama that reflects the lifestyle of many young Hong Kong people at the time.[4]

The film was made using leftover film reels and therefore had very low production costs, even for an independent movie.[citation needed]

Plot

The narrator, Autumn Moon, is a secondary school drop-out whose father has abandoned his family for his mistress. He has nightmares about a classmate who committed suicide along with constant wet dreams after coming into possession of a love letter belonging to her. Moon works with his friend, Sylvester who is mentally disabled, as a debt collector for a triad member and falls for Ping, the daughter of a debtor. She has a fatal kidney disease, so the teenager accepts an assassination contract to pay her medical fees. When Ping and Sylvester are dead, Moon decides to take revenge on the world before committing suicide.

Cast and roles

See also

References

  1. ^ "Made in Hong Kong (2020 re-release)". Box Office Mojo. IMDb. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  2. ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  3. ^ "45 Countries Submit Films for Oscar Consideration". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. 19 November 1998. Archived from the original on 19 February 1999. Retrieved 20 October 2015.
  4. ^ a b "Interview: Fruit Chan, 20 Years On from Made in Hong Kong". FilmDoo. 29 May 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2018.

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