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8 November 2001 (Germany) morePlot:
Pao Ge returns to Hong Kong after hiding out in Brazil to search for a girl he had a brief encounter with just to remember her face before his memory fades. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Unforgettable moreCast
(Credited cast)| Eric Tsang | ... | Roy 'Mountain Leopard' | |
| Nicholas Tse | ... | Smokey | |
| Qi Shu | ... | Ah Nam | |
| Kelly Chen | ... | Policewoman | |
| Sandra Ng Kwan Yue | ... | Third Sister | |
| Anthony Wong Chau-Sang | |||
| Terence Yin | ... | Brother Chai | |
| Stephen Fung | ... | Young Roy | |
| Sam Lee | ... | Young Nine Dragons | |
| Elaine Jin | ... | Smokey's Mother | |
| Jo Kuk | ... | Dee Dee | |
| Wai-Man Chan | ... | Nine Dragons | |
| Vincent Kok | |||
| Wei Tung | ... | Assassin (flashback) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Tat-Ming Cheung | |||
| Tony Ho | |||
| Yeung Ming Wan | |||
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Ban Zhi Yan is a tender movie about the memory of a lifetime. It's sure to be a sentimental film for Chinese audiences, especially because of its theme song, Teresa Teng's Wo Zhi Zai Hu Ni (I Only Care For You). One of the lines in the song is especially poignant, considering the determination of Pao Ge to find the woman in his memory. It goes, "...losing my life wouldn't be a shame..." which is just as well as Pao Ge is willing to do anything to find the one thing in his life that matters to him.
It's a dramatic, symbolic, sad, beautiful, very human and at times, funny film to behold. Sandra Ng is especially funny as Third Sister, the Lady Boss.
You will find that it will linger in your mind long after its brilliance has faded upon your TV/computer screen... And if by some chance, you managed to forget it, you will remember again, when you hear that song... Or when you encounter a half-smoked cigarette.