Rent Boat People (1982)
3.8 of 5 from 56 ratings
1h 49min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
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. Three years after the Communist takeover, a Japanese photojournalist (George Lam) travels to Vietnam to document the country's seemingly triumphant rebirth. When he befriends a teenage girl (Season Ma) and her destitute family, however, he begins to discover what the government doesn't want him to see: the brutal, often shocking reality of life in a country where political repression and poverty have forced many to resort to desperate measures in order to survive. Transcending polemic, renowned director Ann Hui takes a deeply humanistic approach to a harrowing and urgent subject with searing contemporary resonance. - Actors:
- George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, Andy Lau, Meiying Jia, Mung-Sek Kei, Junyi Guo, Shujing Lin, Jianzhou Cai, Tung-Sheng Chang, Gamhung Cheung, Shui-Chiu Gan, Hengbao Guo, Jialing Hao, Tao Lin, Pingmei Meng, Mengshi Qi, Huangwen Wang, Shouquan Wang, Shujun Wu
- Directors:
- Ann Hui
- Producers:
- Meng Xia
- Writers:
- Cheung Gam Hung, Kang Chien Chiu
- Aka:
- Tau ban no hoi
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Countries:
- Hong Kong
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 21/03/2022
- Run Time:
- 109 minutes
- Languages:
- Cantonese LPCM Mono, Japanese LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- New conversation between Hui and filmmaker Stanley Kwan, who was the movie's assistant director
- Keep Rolling, a 2020 documentary about Hui by Man Lim-chung, Hui's longtime production designer and art director
- As Time Goes By, a 1997 documentary and selfportrait by Hui, produced by Peggy Chiao
- Press conference from the 1983 Cannes International Film Festival
- Trailer
- Essays by film critic Justin Chang and scholar Vinh Nguyen
