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Weeds on Fire (Chinese: 點五步; Jyutping: dim2 ng5 bou6; literally "half a step") is a 2016 Hong Kong film adapted from the true story of the Shatin Martins, the first baseball team from Hong Kong to win a league.
Aug 25, 2016 · Weeds on Fire: Directed by Chi Fat Chan. With Kai-Chi Liu, Yiu-Sing Lam, Tony Tsz-Tung Wu, Chan-Leung Poon.
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- Biography, Drama, Sport
- Chi Fat Chan
- 2016-08-25
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- Steve Chan Chi Fat
- 95 min
- 8
Jul 4, 2016 · Inspired by the true story of Hong Kong’s first teenage baseball team. In the 1980s, two childhood friends join the Shatin Martins, a Band 3 school baseball team managed by the school principal.
Aug 25, 2016 · Weeds on Fire is the initiative’s first fruit and director Chan’s debut, a decent coming of age tale told through the prism of a sports movie.
- Chan Chi-Fat
- Douglas Parkes
Weeds on Fire features a fictionalized version of the team's journey as its framework, and uses its baseball storyline as a vessel for familiar themes like Hong Kong social problems, political issues and existential youth musings.
Nov 6, 2017 · ‘Weeds On Fire’ is a fine debut for director Chan Chi-Fat and writer Wong Chi-Yeung. It does suffer a little with its pacing and certain key scenes threaten to lurch into incongruous melodrama, but it’s independent feel does bring it back from predictability.