Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Year: 1992
Duration: 108'
Hong Kong: Wai, a Chinese girl of 15, realizes that autumn exists between summer and winter. Through the door slightly ajar, Wai can see her family preparing the trunks for the long voyage: emigration to Canada. Tokio, a Japanese man. arrives in Hong Kong, filming all that he sees and recording his verbal impressions on the differences between this country and his own. He is in Hong Kong to discover the pleasure of Chinese cooking. He meets Wai while fishing and talks with her in English. Wai takes Tokio home, where only her aged grandmother remains. Later, Tokio is filming the legs of young women in street when he runs into the sister of his first wife. They end up making love. Wai takes a trip to an island with the boy she loves and discovers the pleasures and pains of love. Wai's grandmother is sick and must be hospitalized. At her beside with his video camera, Tokio discovers the secret of her cooking. She also tells Tokio that she's long known that Wai's father will never bring her over to Canada. She wants to remain in Hong Kong and be buried there. The grandmother is released from the hospital and returns home. Tokio finds Wai and celebrates her last traditional autumn holiday before her departure to Canada.
Biography
film director
Clara Law
Born in Macao, Clara Law (Law Chuck Yu) studied in Hong Kong. Graduating with a degree in English literature, she began working in television. In 1982, she was admitted to the National Film and Television School in London where, three years later she completed her first feature film, They Say the Moon is Fuller Here. Returning Hong Kong, in 1988 she directed The Other Half and the Other Half. In 1990, she directed Farewell China, which received the special jury prize at the Turin Film Festival and four awards at Taipei.
FILMOGRAFIA
They Say the Moon Is Fuller Here (1985), The Other Half and the Other Half (1988), Farewell China (1990), Quiyue (Autumn Moon, 1992).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Clara Law (Law Chuck Yin).
Sceneggiatura e montaggio: Fong LingChing.
Director of photography: Tony Leung.
Cast and characters: Masatoshi Nagase (Tokio), Li Piu Wai (Wai), Choi Siu Wan, Maki Kiuchi, Sun Ching Hung.
Production company: Trix Films, Hong Kong.
Foreign sales agent: Trix Films, 6A Duke St., G/F, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, fax 8523381835 Right Staff Office Co. Ltd., 3/F, 22620 Kitazawa, SetagayaKu, Tokyo 155, Japan, fax 334853641.
Sceneggiatura e montaggio: Fong LingChing.
Director of photography: Tony Leung.
Cast and characters: Masatoshi Nagase (Tokio), Li Piu Wai (Wai), Choi Siu Wan, Maki Kiuchi, Sun Ching Hung.
Production company: Trix Films, Hong Kong.
Foreign sales agent: Trix Films, 6A Duke St., G/F, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong, fax 8523381835 Right Staff Office Co. Ltd., 3/F, 22620 Kitazawa, SetagayaKu, Tokyo 155, Japan, fax 334853641.
