Duo ming jia ren (1987)

Director:

Chung Sun

Writers:

Kam-Fai Law, Yiu Ming Leung,

Stars:

Mang-Ha Cheng, Chok Chow Cheung, Ching Yee Chong

Cast

Credited cast:
Mang-Ha Cheng	...	Shan Shan's Grandmother
Chok Chow Cheung
Ching Yee Chong
Shan Kwan	...	Sang's Boss
Philip Kwok	...	Kern
Tony Leung Ka Fai	...	Chan Kin-Sang
Brigitte Lin	...	Leung, May-Fung
Chung Lin	...	Lam
Kit-Man Mak	...	Shan Shan / Shanny
Kien Shih	...	Fung's Father
Kam-Kong Wong	...	Shanghai Wong
Bin-Yuet Woo

Storyline

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Plot Keywords:

boss | vietnam | child in peril | murder attempt | loss of father | 

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Details

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese Mandarin

Also Known As:

Duet meng gai yan

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cinema City

Technical Specs

Runtime:

92 min

Sound Mix:

Mono

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

User Reviews

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Lady in Black portrays Sang [Tony Leung Ka-Fai] as a worker in a building firm and May [Lin Ching Hsia] as his devoted wife, as well as "working mom". The first one is affected by social climbing obsessions and, in order to gain wealth and power, tries to ingratiate himself with his boss and also gambles big sums of money. However, things start going amiss when he loses $440.000 in the games. May, unaware of the reasons, generously helps the husband in trouble by forging her boss' signature on a check but becomes desperate, when she learns that her husband won't be able to return the $500.000 in time for her to fill the hole left in the firm's balance. How will the family, which also encompasses their son and May's father, be able to come out of this mess?

The movie is a tragedy, with few endearing moments and many harsh and cruel ones. There's a deliberate intention of dramatizing every scene, i.e. by making heavy rain fall down restlessly or by making the two co-stars (son and grandpa) "shakespearian" (meaning that they react pessimistically and impulsively to each situation), yet the aspects the movie deals with - loneliness, social climbing, the charm of power, moral integrity, faithfulness, elders' rest home, bankruptcy - are real and not exaggerated. Overall it's a movie worth seeing, more over as it's enlightened by a great and realistic interpretation by the two leads. 7/10

The DVD from Deltamac displays good picture quality, but suffers in the subtitles from a poor English translation