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Eddie Ling-Ching Fong (writer)
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7 October 1993 (Netherlands)
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Twentysomething Japanese tourist, Tokio, comes to Hong Kong looking for good cusine. He does all that the tourist is expected to do...
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(Complete credited cast) | Masatoshi Nagase | ... | Tokio |
| Pui-Wai Li | ... | Li Pui Wai |
| Choi Siu Wan | ... | Granny |
| Maki Kiuchi | ... | Miki |
| Suen Ching Hung | ... | Wai's Boyfriend |
| Sung Lap Young | ... | Wai's Father |
| Tsang Yuet Guen | ... | Wai's Mother |
| Chu Kit Ming | ... | Wai's Brother |
| Ang Ching Yee | ... | Student |
| Yue Sui Ting | ... | Student |
| Ngai Wai Man | ... | Detective |
| Lee Yee Ping | ... | Hotel Woman |
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108 min
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This is an unusually subtle and beautiful film about the migrant experience. In small but resonant ways it explores themes of memory, identity and tradition both at the level of the culture and of the individual. In some ways it reminds me of _Hiroshima mon amour_, a much better known film on similar themes which may be a useful reference point for anyone who is not sure what to expect from this film.
Some of the simplest images in this film are also its most powerful: there's poignancy in something as unremarkable as a shot of the contents of a refrigerator, or in a young girl's distress at being told that her cherished local McDonald's is not a "traditional restaurant". It's not that the film is merely nostalgic, however. It's more about what it means to be poised in the instant between a meaningful past and an unknowable but very different future. At the very heart of the film is an unforgettable soliloquy by an old woman about her wishes for her descendants.
This is not a film that everybody will be able to relate to. But for the increasing number of us who find ourselves displaced from old certainties, it is gratifying, haunting and challenging to see a film like this one.