Stars and Roses

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Stars and Roses
Hanyu Pinyin
Ài Rén Tóng Zhì
JyutpingNgoi3 Jan4 Tung4 Zi3
Directed byTaylor Wong
Screenplay byKo Chung Wai
Produced byYuen Kam Lun
Starring
Lo Tayu

Richard Lo
Production
company
Chun Sing Films
Distributed byChun Sing Films
Release date
  • 21 December 1989 (1989-12-21)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesCantonese
Vietnamese
Mandarin
Box officeHK$13,098,194

Stars and Roses (orig. Ai ren tong zhi) is a 1989 Hong Kong

drama film directed by Taylor Wong starring Andy Lau as a photo journalist from Hong Kong and Cherie Chung
as a Vietnamese translator.

Plot

Lau Kai Cho (Andy Lau) travels to Vietnam for a story. Once in Vietnam, he briefly meets Yuen Hung (Cherie Chung), a translator and is involved in an accident after crashing a motorised rickshaw. The courts hand him a prison sentence in a strict prison where he is subject to a number of horrible punishments.

While in prison, he meets Yuen's brother, upon his release, Lau and Yuen become more friendly until Lau is imprisoned again for anti-government activity. Sentenced to 3 years he plots to escape from prison taking Yuen Hung's brother with him.

Cast

  • Andy Lau as Lau Kai Cho
  • Cherie Chung as Yuen Hung
  • Sheila Chan
    as Lawyer Chan
  • Shing Fui-On as Chen Fei Ehn
  • Hung San-Nam
  • Lam Wai as Hung's boyfriend
  • Lau Chun-Fai
  • Leung Ming
  • Lung Ming-Yan as Nam
  • Wai Gei-Shun

Production

The film was shot in Hong Kong and Vietnam.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ "Stars and Roses". imdb.com. Retrieved 23 July 2010.
  2. ^ "Stars and Roses". chinesemov.com. Retrieved 23 July 2010.

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