Hong Kong 1941 (DTS Version) (Digitally Remastered) (Joy Sales Version) (Hong Kong Version) DVD Region 3
YesAsia Editorial Description
Even before starring in the John Woo movie A Better Tomorrow, Chow Yun Fat has already demonstrated an unparalleled charisma in Hong Kong 1941 which won him the Best Actor awards at both Taiwan's Golden Horse and the Asian Pacific Film Festival in 1985. The film also captured the Best Cinematography award at the Hong Kong Film Awards. A film directed by Leong Poh Chi with believable characters, Hong Kong 1941 examines human nature and survival during wartime, apart from merely offering engaging storytelling.
Chow Yun Fat is Fay, a Peking opera actor who wants to get smuggled into the States. He gets stuck in Hong Kong and worked as a part-time coolie for a rice distributor, where he knows Keung (Alex Man) and his fiancee Nam (Cecilia Yip), and the three gradually develop a subtle love triangle. In December 1941, Hong Kong falls into the hands of the Japanese army, and Fay joins the Japanese army as a Chinese recruit. Losing his honor and his friends' trust as an "enemy collaborator", Fay secretly helps his people to escape from Japanese army - after all acting was once his profession.
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| Product Title: | Hong Kong 1941 (DTS Version) (Digitally Remastered) (Joy Sales Version) (Hong Kong Version) 等待黎明 (DTS版) (數碼修復) (樂貿版) (香港版) 等待黎明 (DTS版) (数码修复) (乐贸版) (香港版) 風の輝く朝に （等待黎明） （デジタルリマスター版） （香港版） Hong Kong 1941 (DTS Version) (Digitally Remastered) (Joy Sales Version) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Chow Yun Fat (Actor) | Alex Man (Actor) | Cecilia Yip (Actor) | Shek Kin | Guk Fung | John Sham | Chan Koon Chung 周潤發 (Actor) | 萬梓良 (Actor) | 葉童 (Actor) | 石堅 | 谷峰 | 岑建勳 | 陳冠中 周润发 (Actor) | 万梓良 (Actor) | 叶童 (Actor) | 石坚 | 谷峰 | 岑建勋 | 陈冠中 周潤發 （チョウ・ユンファ） (Actor) | 萬梓良（アレックス・マン） (Actor) | 葉童（イップ・トン） (Actor) | 石堅（シー・キエン） | 谷峯（クー・ホン） | 岑建勲（ジョン・シャム） | Chan Koon Chung 주윤발 (Actor) | Alex Man (Actor) | Cecilia Yip (Actor) | Shek Kin | Guk Fung | John Sham | Chan Koon Chung |
| Director: | Leung Po Chih 梁普智 梁普智 梁普智（レオン・ポーチ） Leung Po Chih |
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| Release Date: | 2006-09-22 |
| Language: | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Picture Format: | NTSC What is it? |
| Aspect Ratio: | 1.78 : 1 |
| Widescreen Anamorphic: | Yes |
| Sound Information: | Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS Digital Surround |
| Disc Format(s): | DVD-9, DVD |
| Region Code: | 3 - South East Asia (including Hong Kong, S. Korea and Taiwan) What is it? |
| Publisher: | Joy Sales (HK) |
| Package Weight: | 130 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1004179905 |
Product Information
* Sound Mix:
- Cantonese: DTS (768bps), Dolby Digital 5.1 (448 Kbps)
- Mandarin: Dolby Digital 5.1 (448Kbps)
* DVD Type: DVD-9
* Special Features:
- Original Movie Trailer 原裝預告片
- New Edited Movie Trailer 重新剪輯精裝預告片
- Photo Galleries 照片回顧
- An Interview with Paul Chu 秦沛專訪
- An Interview with Cecilia Yip 葉童專訪
導演：梁普智
Director: Leong Po Chih
周潤發初顯巨星魅力，成功奪得金馬及亞太雙料影帝。
第四屆香港電影金像奘最佳攝影 （1984）
第二十二屆台灣電影金馬獎最佳男主角 （1985）
第三十屆亞太影展最佳男主角 （1985）
劇情描述香港淪陷前後，欲偷渡往美國未成的周潤發，在一埸搶米糧的暴動中認識了家道中落的富家子萬梓良。而米商的女兒葉童與萬青梅竹馬，為了逃避父親安排的婚姻，葉童與萬、周二人一起乘船欲偷渡美國，不料碰到戰爭爆發，葉被巡警強姦，但她卻同時愛上了萬與周。
Chow started to reveal his charm being a super star in his initial stage,, successfully captured the honor of Best Actors in Golden House and Asia Pacific Film Festival
Awards
The 4th Hong Kong Film Awards Best Cinematography
The 22nd Golden Horse Awards Best Actor
The 30th Asia Pacific Film Festival Best Actor
Fei (Chow Yun Fat), a young man who’s trying to scrape up enough money to catch a boat to the U.S. He befriends Keung (Alex Man), who comes from a wealthy family, but is now a coolie working for a successful rice merchant.
Keung’s childhood friend, Nam (Cecilia Yip) who is betrothed to a man by her politically ambitions father. The trio decides to make a run for the boat. But on the day of their planned escape, they awoke to the Japanese attack on the city and were forced to stay behind. Fei signed up to work for the Japanese to help Keung and Nam in their next attempt to excape…
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Po Chi-leung is probably the best director you've never heard of. Tsui Hark, Ringo Lam, John Woo, Sammo Hung maybe even Stanley Kwan, Wong Jing and Lee Lik-chee if you're real smart but Po Chi-Leung - who? Technical savant with an avante garde brain rooted in theatrical experimentation, a conjuror of 18 karat performances, a vaudevillian showman equally at home with low farce and high art, he's the director of the superlative He Lives By Night and The Island. Hong Kong 1941 is a World War II drama telling the homefront story at a time when the world was at war and everyone went just a little crazy for a while.
The British have virtually abandoned Hong Kong to the Japanese, leaving behind a skeleton garrison of Canadian soldiers. In the lull between the recession of the British Empire and the intercession of the Japanese Empire Hong Kong's citizens enjoy a brief, magical state of grace. Preserved in amber, that magic twenty minutes in class when the teacher's late and no one's sure what might happen. In this stifling summer air thick with mold and humidity a coolie with dreams of immigrating stumbles into the illicit love affair between scrappy, epileptic Cecilia Yip from the right side of the tracks and scrappy "bunk of muscle" Alex Man from the wrong side. The two are kept apart by Yip's rice magnate father, but as Chow, Man and Yip become fast friends, anarchy rises up, parents lose their hold on children and people lose their hold on their senses. With his eye for visual absurdity and his feel for pop music and pop narrative, Po Chi-leung steers his story around the standard cliches and makes it feel new. Chow becomes a Japanese collaborator in order to survive and the simultaneous savvy, survival skills and self-loathing he projects is as heady as his acting gets. The high concept ideas flow fast (Cecilia Yip's epilepsy tends to act up as the world falls apart) but what sticks in your mind is the way the gently loping, elliptical scenes shot in a late afternoon timelessness suddenly congeal into graphic setpieces out of a POW's nightmares. Winner of several awards, Hong Kong 1941 should be more widely known in the West. Falling outside standard notions of the HK movie, it fits firmly in the realm of the art flick, but such a glib branding buries its unique charms under an awkward label. For the viewer ready to experiment Hong Kong 1941 offers a movie as mature and mercurial as Chow Yun-fat's performance, soaking wet from rain and sweat, the final story of a colony scorching in the brilliant sun of two empires at war. by Grady Hendrix |
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June 21, 2008
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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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August 10, 2005
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| 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. |
November 19, 2002
This customer review refers to Hong Kong 1941
| 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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