Friends
朋友
CINEMA1974-06-29
RegionHK
Runtime104 MIN
Media TypeMovie
PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Nexus Editorial Perspective Nexus Original
“Youth relationships, social pressure and street conflict reveal the studio's engagement with contemporary urban reality.”
“Youth relationships, social pressure and street conflict reveal the studio's engagement with contemporary urban reality.”
Storyline
Hua Heng is a poverty-stricken aspiring painter whose day job involves painting the ads that go up on the sides of buildings. He and his buddies hang out in a makeshift gym set up in an abandoned building where they train and practice kung fu. His girlfriend is Gao Xin, a bar maid who is in debt to loan sharks. Into their lives comes Jiaji, who hap...
DIRECTOR / Director
Chang Cheh
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