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Writers:
Yumiko Aoyagi (writer)
Susan Chan (writer)
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Release Date:
1 April 1999 (Hong Kong) more
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A Japanese woman named Hitomi who lost her fiancé in a car crash meets a Chinese man named Karbo who looks exactly like him who himself is on the run from the police after being framed. full summary | add synopsis
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Nice bittersweet little love story more (3 total)

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Also Known As:
Moonlight Express (Hong Kong: English title)
Xing yue tong hua (Hong Kong: Mandarin title)
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Runtime:
106 min
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Quotes:
Tatsuya: What did you learn today?
Hitomi: Do you believe there's a... "lip?
Tatsuya: Not "lip" it's "God." "Do you believe there's a God."
Hitomi: I'm God.
[laughs]
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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Nice bittersweet little love story, 20 June 2000
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Author: (cbarr@fsrl.com) from Washington Crossing, PA

This is, essentially, a love story. A young Japanese woman is about to marry a Japanese man who works in Hong Kong. He is killed on the eve of the wedding. She goes to Hong Kong and meets an undercover cop, Karbo, who looks just like the dead fiance. Fate then throws them together when he is framed for a crime.

For me, the highlight of this film is the cameo performance of Michelle Yeoh near the end of the film. She plays Karbo's former partner. Karbo had been engaged to her sister, who committed suicide years before.

Yeoh gives an amazingly subtle and nuanced performance. In five or so minutes on the screen, she creates a character of great depth with an established history. All with facial expressions -- not a word of exposition. In a way, her secondary little story becomes as powerfully moving as the main plot. Once again she proves herself one of the best actresses in film.

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