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.
Length 100 minutes
Chow Yun-Fat | Alex Man Chi-Leung | Cecilia Yip | Ku Feng | Sek Kin | Paul Chun | Wu Ma | Stuart Ong | Angela Yu Chien | Hon Yee-Sang | Billy Lau | Chu Tau | Chow Gam-Kong | Yee Tin-Hung | Lam Chi-Tai | Lung Ying | Wang Han-Chen | Po-Chih Leong | Fong Yue | John Chan | Chun Kwai-Bo | Stephen Chan Yung | Ding Yuen-Kin | Lee Chi-Git | Lam Foo-Wai | Pang Yun-Cheung | Chin Ka-Lok