Tian mi mi (1996)

User Rating:

8.0/10   

Director:

Peter Chan

Writer:

Ivy Ho (writer)

Release Date:

2 November 1996 (Hong Kong)

Genre:

Drama | Romance

Plot:

Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home...

Plot Keywords:

Hong Kong | Love | First Love

Awards:

22 wins & 3 nominations

Cast

Leon Lai	...	XiaoJun Li
Maggie Cheung	...	Qiao Li
Eric Tsang	...	Pao Au-Yeung
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Len Berdick	...	U.S. Immigration Officer
Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
Yue Ding
Christopher Doyle	...	English Teacher
Michelle Gabriel
Irene Tsu	...	Aunt Rosie
Kristy Yang	...	XiaoTing Li

Also Known As:

Comrades: Almost a Love Story (Hong Kong: English title) (International: English title)
Tim mat mat (Hong Kong: Cantonese title)

Runtime:

Canada:118 min | Taiwan:116 min

Country:

Hong Kong

Language:

Cantonese | Mandarin | English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

South Korea:15 | Finland:S | Sweden:7

Company:

Golden Harvest Company

Trivia:

"Tian Mimi" is also the name of the song played throughout the film sung by Teresa Teng. The literal translation is "Sweet Honey" but figuratively, it means a good, warm, loving, close relationship.

Goofs:

Factual errors: It is wrong for XiaoJun Li, a mainlander to refer to his not-yet-married girlfriend XiaoTing as "AiRen" which means "wife" to Mainland Chinese (at least at the time of the movie) but means "lover" to HK and Taiwan Chinese.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Sepet (2004)

An every-day subject wonderful packed up

The film deals with an every-day subject that lots of films have dealt with so far: boy meets girl. So many people might tend to say "It's always the same with that kind of stories", but in this case they are wrong. This film is simply lovely. Everything is there. The rough meeting, the soft touch, the first realization, the despair in the rain, the slight hope, the fate's sign and finally the supernatural power of emotions. All this with Hongkong and New York - two of the most exciting cities in the world - as background and casted with the outstanding actress Maggie Cheung who I'd love to see more often in the cinema.

There might be bigger love stories, but for those two hours you watch this film the most beautiful love story comes from Hongkong.