A 300-pound sailor teaches Hong Kong about love? This chaos is unhinged.
Smart (Kent Cheng), a sailor, returns from sea to his family to help with the family business and raise money for repairs, also teach people about love
Acting
Kent Cheng's physical comedy is genuinely athletic and heartbreaking.
Direction
Self-directed vanity project that somehow works? The gall.
Costume
Sailor suit as iconic uniform — commitment to the bit.
Director
Kent Cheng Jak-Si
Kent Cheng Jak-Si
Smart
Rosamund Kwan Chi-Lam
Ms Fang / Mona Fong
Jaime Chik Mei-Chun
May
Cheung Kwok-Keung
Huang Shao Pai
Billy Lau Nam-Kwong
Kuang / Kwong
Ann Bridgewater
Ann Fang / Ann Fong
Lisa Chiao Chiao
Smart's mother
Shing Fui-On
Seagull
Jamie Luk Kim-Ming
Bartender
Wong Yat-Fei
Lawrence Lau Sek-Yin
Hui Ying-Sau
Tiffany Lau Yuk-Ting
Wilson Yip
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kent Cheng was at his absolute heaviest here, making the sailor-as-outsider metaphor accidentally physical.
This captures late-80s Hong Kong's identity crisis — caught between British colonial swagger and impending 1997 anxiety, using comedy to process collective unease.
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