Made in Hong Kong

Name: Made in Hong Kong
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1997-10-09
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Wenders Li Tung-Chuen, Chan Tat Yee, Sam Lee, Chan Sang, Doris Chow Lai-Yan

Rating

3.5 (1)

Release Date

10/9/1997

Runtime

109 mins

Genres

Drama Crime

Overview

Hong Kong 1997, where young people dream of love and death, suicide and murder. Moon is a cynical young debt collector, smitten by Ping, a young woman dying of kidney disease. A suicide note from a student they don't know ends up intertwining their fates.

Status

Released

Original Language

Budget

Revenue

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How It Feels

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A haunting portrait of youth colliding with mortality and violence in transitional Hong Kong, where tenderness and fatalism intertwine through the connection between a cynical debt collector and a dying woman.

Mood

MelancholicWistfulDread-soaked

Themes

LoveMortalityIsolationComing apart

Tone

Bleak

Pacing

Slow-burn

Look

HandheldNaturalistic

Structure

Nonlinear

Heads up

Suicide and self-harm

Sam Lee

To Chung-Chau

Neiky Yim Hui-Chi

Lam Yuk-Ping

Wenders Li Tung-Chuen

Ah-Lung

Carol Lam

Mrs. Lam

Doris Chow Lai-Yan

Mrs. To

Chan Sang

Cheung Siu-Wing

Woo Wai-Chung

Keung

Chan Tat Yee

Fat Chan

Amy Tam Ka Chuen

Hui Bo San

Kelvin Chung

Doctor

Eric Lau

Wong Wing-Nam

Reviews

nicolascagegoons

Aug 27, 2026

it ends with a mention of mao zedong.
the goat.
the direction is steral and cold, it knows that these people have been universally abandoned yet despite that they have dreams but the world doesn't let them have them and shatters those dreams.
its a really good film, if it was just a film about the aimless youth culture, it would've been slightly boring and a retread of other films but fruit chan delivers a film that intertwines that with the loneliness of abandonment and hate towards the world.
(watch my feature film https://boxd.it/dNvKo1 )