The Home at Hong Kong

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The Home at Hong Kong
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Traditional Chinese 家在香港
Simplified Chinese 家在香港
Hanyu Pinyin Jiā Zài Xiāng Gǎng
Jyutping Gaa1 Zoi3 Heong1 Gong2
Directed byKing Hoi Lam
Screenplay by Chan Man-kwai
Story byKing Hoi Lam
Produced byAnthony Chow
Starring Andy Lau
Chu Hoi Ling
Ku Feng
Carroll Gordon
Isabella Kau
Newton Lai
CinematographyAbdul M. Rumjahn
Edited byKam Ma
Music byWu Da Jiang
Production
companies
Golden Harvest
Paragon Films
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 19 August 1983 (1983-08-19)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$4,830,255

The Home at Hong Kong is a 1983 Hong Kong drama film directed by King Hoi Lam and starring Andy Lau.

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Plot

Alan Wong (Andy Lau) is a Hong Kong youth who is bent to climb up the social ladder. With the help of a foreign businessman's mistress and mixed ethnicity woman Erica (Carroll Gordon), he joins a real estate company and he knows how to grasp on to opportunities and gets into high position. Later he meets Cheung Ting Ting (Chu Hoi Ling), a Mainland Chinese girl who illegally came to Hong Kong and sees her pities her and also falls in love in her. When real estate falls into low tide, many foreign businessmen leaves Hong Kong while Alan and Erica refuses to immigrate overseas. Out of jealousy, Erica informs the police that Ting is an illegally immigrant and she suicides forever. Alan and Ting disguise as Vietnamese refugees to escape however Ting refuses to do this. Uncle Fu (Ku Feng), a watchman who always wished to die in his ancestry home loses his life while helping Ting escape. Another youth, Lee Kin Fai's (Newton Lai) girlfriend, due to her family's eagerness to immigrate, was married to a cabaret manager who helps her family to Hong Kong. Fai loses his self-esteem and loses sanity after being injured in a boxing match.

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Box office

The film grossed HK$4,830,255 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 9 to 31 August 1983 in Hong Kong.

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