Overview
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.
Director and cast
- Leong Po-Chih Director
- Chow Yun-Fat as Yip Kim-Fay
- Alex Man Chi-Leung as Wong Hak-Keung
- Cecilia Yip Tung as Ha Yuk-Nam
- Ku Feng as Shiu
- Paul Chun Pui as Sergeant WIng
- Shih Kien as Ha Chung-Sang
- Wu Ma as Chairman Liu
- Yee San Hon as Fei's Uncle
- Stuart Yung Sai-kit as General Kanezawa
- Angela Yu Chien Cast
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