Your husband dies, leaves you his secret son, and the killers are still coming. Family therapy, 1986 Hong Kong style.
Ip Cheung and her husband, a senior police inspector, had been happily married for 18 years. One day, Ip runs into her neighbour, a Taiwanese woman. As they are talking, three men suddenly appeared and tried to kill them. The Taiwanese woman is killed but Ip and the kid, Yen, managed to escape. At the same time, Ip's husband commits suicide. His superior suspected him of corruption. Ip finds out that the Taiwanese woman was her husband's mistress and Yen, his illegitimate son. Ip is given custody of Yen but they are unable to get along. However she will save his live when the gang go after him.
Acting
Deanie Ip carries impossible grief with devastating restraint.
Direction
Shu Kei's debut balances soap opera and genuine tragedy.
Director
Shu Kei
Deanie Ip
Lee Yip-Cheong
Elaine Jin Yan-Ling
Gi Gi
Dennis Chan Kwok-San
Wai-Wai
Ko I-chen
"Big Brother"
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Boy-Boy
Jacky Cheung Hok-Yau
Jacky Cheong
Sandy Lam San-San
San-san
David Chiang Da-Wei
Kai-Yeung Lee
Alfred Cheung Kin-Ting
Ticket Booth Attendant
Manfred Wong Man-Chun
Insurance Agent
Yip Hon-Leung
Tony Au Ting-Ping
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Future auteur Hou Hsiao-hsien appears as gangster 'Boy-Boy' while already directing his own masterpieces.
Made during Hong Kong's 1986 New Wave, when television actors like Jacky Cheung crossed to film and melodrama got seriously psychological.
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