
100 minutes
11/2/1984
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.

Chow Yun-Fat
as Yip Kim-Fay

Alex Man Chi-Leung
as Wong Hak-Keung

Cecilia Yip Tung
as Ha Yuk-Nam

Ku Feng
as Shiu

Sek Kin
as Ha Chung-Sang

Paul Chun Pui
as Sergeant Wing

Wu Ma
as Chairman Liu

Stuart Yung Sai-Kit
as General Kanezawa

Angela Yu Chien
as Fei's Aunt

Hon Yee-Sang
as Fei's Uncle

Billy Lau Nam-Kwong
as Foreman

Chu Tau
as Liu's Man

Chow Gam-Kong
as Liu's Man

Paco Yick Tin-Hung
as Wing's Thug

Lam Chi-Tai
as Sang's Worker

Lung Ying
as Sang's Worker

Wang Han-Chen
as Japanese Collaborator Captain

Leong Po-Chih
as Emperor

Fong Yue
as Wang's Wife

John Chan
as Photographer

Chun Kwai-Bo
as Japanese Soldier
Stephen Chan Yung
as Policeman
Ding Yuen-Kin
as Shiu's Countryman

Lee Chi-Kit

Lam Foo-Wai
Pang Yun-Cheung

Chin Ka-Lok