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Boat People ( Chinese: 投奔怒海; pinyin: Tóubēn Nù Hǎi; Cantonese Yale: Tau ban no hoi; lit. 'Into the Raging Sea') is a Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui, first shown in theatres in 1982. The film stars George Lam, Andy Lau, Cora Miao, and Season Ma. At the second Hong Kong Film Awards, Boat People won awards for Best ...
Oct 13, 1982 · Boat People: Directed by Ann Hui. With George Lam, Season Ma, Andy Lau, Meiying Jia. A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".
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- Drama
- Ann Hui
- 1982-10-13
One of the preeminent works of the Hong Kong New Wave, Boat People is a shattering look at the circumstances that drove hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese refugees to flee their homeland in the wake of the Vietnam War, told through images of haunting, unforgettable power.
- Shiomi Akutagawa
Aug 21, 2022 · Ann Hui On-wah’s Boat People is a classic of the Hong Kong New Wave movement that, beginning in the late 1970s, helped establish Hong Kong cinema as a player on the international stage. The...
Shiomi Akutagawa (George Lam), a Japanese photojournalist, travels to Vietnam to document life under communist rule. Government officials are all too happy to take him on a tour of villages that ...
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- Ann Hui
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- George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau
Aug 25, 2022 · Release Details. Duration:111 mins. Cast and crew. Director:Ann Hui. Screenwriter:Yau-Tai On-Ping. Cast: George Lam. Season Ma. Cora Miao. Andy Lau. Gus Wong. Been there, done that? Think again, my...
Nov 6, 2020 · Ann Hui’s Boat People (1982) is one of the most acclaimed, and controversial, Hong Kong films ever made. It is the final film in Hui’s “Vietnamese Trilogy”, following the documentary The Boy from Vietnam (1978) and the fictional The Story of Woo Viet (1981).
