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Koon-Chung Chan (writer)
Release Date:
2 November 1984 (Hong Kong)
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Years later, a woman narrates her personal story of the Japanese takeover of Hong Kong in 1941. She's Nam...
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top rate production values but lacking in story line
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Cast
(Credited cast)| Yun-Fat Chow | ... | Yip Kim Fay (as Chow Yun Fat) | |
| Cecilia Yip | ... | Han Yuk Nam | |
| Alex Man | ... | Wong Hak Keung | |
| Kien Shih | ... | Chung Shin | |
| Ma Wu | ... | Chairman Liu Yan-Mau | |
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| Paul Chun | ... | Sergeant Fa Wing | |
| Feng Ku | ... | Shui | |
| Billy Lau | ... | Factory Foreman | |
| Chien Yu | |||
| Sai-Kit Yung | ... | General Kanezawa | |
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Deng dai li ming (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
Hong Kong 1941 (Hong Kong: English title)
Waiting for Dawn
Waiting for Daybreak (literal English title)
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Hong Kong 1941 (Hong Kong: English title)
Waiting for Dawn
Waiting for Daybreak (literal English title)
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Rated R for violence.
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USA:100 min
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I must have missed something when I watched this one because despite having some excellent poetic and dramatic moments, there weren't enough to put it over the top.
Hong Kong filmmakers have thankfully put the run run shaw cookie cutter chop sockie days behind them and this was one of the 1st full breaks from that gender. the growing pains show however, just something lacking. there weren't very many Japanese either despite the title.
I've been to Hong Kong twice and there are places you can *still* see the pockmarks from where the bullets hit in the December 1941 invasion. the same month as pearl harbour bombing so the Japanese were being very aggressive. thats what I expected instead it was just a backdrop to a romance drama. I wish they would spell it out on the DVD box !!!