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Fruit Chan (writer)
Release Date:
9 October 1997 (Hong Kong)
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Autumn Moon (Sam Lee), a low-rent triad living in Hong Kong, struggles to find meaning in his hopelessly violent existence. | add synopsis
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A haunting, despairing film
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Sam Lee | ... | To Chung-Chau, 'Moon' |
| Neiky Yim Hui-Chi | ... | Lam Yuk-Ping, 'Ping' |
| Wenders Li | ... | Ah-Lung, 'Sylvester' (as Wenbers Li Tung-Chuen) |
| Amy Tam Ka-Chuen | ... | Hui Bo San, 'Susan' |
| Carol Lam Kit-Fong | ... | Mrs. Lam, Ping's mother |
| Doris Chow Yan-Wah | ... | Mrs. To, Moon's mother |
| Siu Chung | ... | Ms. Lee, social worker |
| Tat-Yee Chan | ... | Fat Chan |
| Wai-Chung Wu | ... | Keung |
| Chan Sang | ... | 'Big Brother', Cheung Siu-Wing |
| Kelvin Chung | ... | Doctor |
| Ah Ting | ... | Moon's father |
| Jessica | ... | Moon's father's current wife |
| Ah Wai | ... | Assassin on skateboard |
| Ho B-Chai | ... | Male student |
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Director Fruit Chan struggled for years to direct his debut film, and could only do so by shooting the entire picture on bits and pieces of blank film that he had collected from the ends of reels.
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References Natural Born Killers (1994)
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Fruit Chan's debut film was seen by many in Hong Kong as a metaphor for the foreboding that gripped the colony in the years before 1997, and Chan himself has said that it is the first part of a trilogy on the handover--the second part is "The Longest Night." Metaphorical resonances aside, though, under the energetic, sometimes violent surface of "Made in China" is a film of haunting sadness and compassion. The central character, the young, jobless Autumn Moon, is proud of his ability to live by his wits; but he ends up in a world that his wits can't handle. Chan's ingenuity in making this film on a tiny budget with amateur actors is obvious, but one leaves the film overwhelmed with sadness for the lives of the characters--most of all Autumn Moon's, and his despairing inability to help the people he cares about.