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Chow Yun Fat (Actor) | Alex Man (Actor) | Cecilia Yip (Actor) | Shek Kin

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Tanzhang
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June 21, 2008

This customer review refers to Hong Kong 1941 (DTS Version) (Digitally Remastered) (Joy Sales Version) (Hong Kong Version)

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CYF's Early Drama Classic Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10

Although Chow Yun Fat did win a Best Actor Award at the Golden Horse Awards for this film, it remained forgotten and underappreciated for many years, which considering the film, is a real shame. Now fortunately this Low Budget Epic has been given the treatment it deserves with it's latest DVD Incantation, and is a Must for fans of Chow Yun Fat.

In his best Pre-Mark Gor Role by far, Chow Yun Fat plays Yip Kim Fay, an out of work actor who wants to leave Hong Kong during the years leading up to the Japanese Occupation. Finding himself out of work, Fay decides to take a job at a rice factory, where he befriends local thug Keung (Alex Man) and during a dispute between the workers and the Factory owners, Fay helps Keung escape.

The Dispute was caused by the cruel and unsympathetic business practices of it's owner (The Legendary Sek Kin) who's daughter, Nam (Cecilia Yip) is in love with Keung, but due to the strictness of her father, cannot see him, let alone marry him.

Following the dispute at the factory, and Nam's increasing dissatisfaction with her father, the three of them meet at an ancestral shrine. Fay talks about finding Gold in Australia and America, and he convinces his two new friends to leave Hong Kong Tomorrow Morning.

They Picked the Wrong Day...

The Morning they planned on leaving is the same Day the Japanese forces invade Hong Kong and put it under Martial Law, Fay and Nam rush to the docks, but Keung is unable to make the boat. Rather than abandon his friend, Fay and Nam jump off the boat and decide to stay in Hong Kong with their friend.

The rest of the film is about the three characters and how they interact during Occupied Hong Kong with the Japanese Occupiers and the Changed Attitude of the Hong Kong people around them, much to the dismay and disgust of the three main characters. Their Friendship is tested through Various adversities, but by the very end of the film, it's clear that their bond remains as strong as ever, as one of the three friends gives their life for the other two.

All in all this is a moving and poetic film by director Po Chi Leung, with fine performances by Chow, Alex and Cecilia. This film is not so much Graphic as other films, but features some scenes which describe the Horrors of Chaos and War.

Highly Recommended for a Mature Audience.

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Les
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August 10, 2005

Ordinary Chinese under Japanese Co-Prosperity Customer Review Rated Bad 9 - 9 out of 10

This film dramatizes the experience of the Chinese people under Japanese aggression. Chow Yun Fat, Cecilia Yip & Alex Man turn in bravura performances, but only Chow & Cecilia attained more distinguished film careers after this. The young Chow is the self-sacrificing, street-wise and tragic hero who does so much for others, an archetype of the characters that he would go on to play in so many HK movies. HK1941 is a bittersweet remembrance of a turbulent time as recollected by Cecilia Yip. It shows the Imperialist Japanese warmongers and their running dog opportunists as the cruel, harsh and evil oppressors that they were and it also shows the ordinary people who struggled to survive and fight back. A sad movie but it ends on a note of hope.

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Anonymous

November 19, 2002

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Hong Kong 1941 (Deng Dai Li Ming) Customer Review Rated Bad 10 - 10 out of 10

A film you should watch. With Chow Yun-fat and Cecilia Yip: the best partner role. Alex Man is also good. A dramatization of Hong Kong's darkest year in WWII. Remember Black Christmas?

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