Boat People
投奔怒海
CINEMA1982-10-13
RegionHK / CN
Runtime109 MIN
Media TypeMovie
Storyline
A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family.
DIRECTOR / DirectorTOPIC
Ann HuiCast & Crew
KEYWORDS
vietnamphotographyphotojournalismwoman directorhong kong new waveland mine finderssafe passage bribesvietnamese woman
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Collection: Vietnam Trilogy
Long before Hong Kong declared itself the ‘first port of asylum’ for Vietnamese refugees in 1979, tens of thousands of Vietnamese had already been flocking to the city by cargo ships in the four years prior. Ann Hui made her first creative endeavour to chronicle this chapter of Hong Kong’s history with acute insights in the TV drama Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam. Subsequently, as Vietnamese migrants became an increasingly contentious issue in Hong Kong, Hui directed two more films on the same topic, The Story of Woo Viet and Boat People. Collectively, these three works became known as the Vietnam Trilogy, marking the stellar rise of Hui’s filming career.
