George Lam

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A landmark of the nascent Hong Kong New Wave of the early ’80s, this melodrama — directed by Ann Hui — concerns the plight of Vietnamese peasants shortly after the fall of Saigon. The film centers on a Japanese photojournalist named Shiomi Akutagawa (George Lam Chi-cheung) who ventures to Danang to document Vietnam’s attempts at rebuilding after the war. At first he’s bussed around by government officials showing off quaint villages and happy, healthy children. Later, he manages to get permission to wander about the countryside without a government chaperon. Soon he happens upon a young lass named Cam Nuong (Season Ma Si-san) who is from a desperately poor family.Read More »

Silvia and Cora are very good friends for many years. Both of them are widows and each has a daughter living with them. On a brightly-shining Saturday afternoon, two old friends just stay at the balcony, chattering and reminiscing. With or with no intention, some hidden things on their minds, even the love affairs between Silvia and Cora’s husband, George, are being raised and touched. Thus, the two great friends seem to be walled up. However, they have to live and thing would past no matter how serious they are. The two bosom friends then enter the restaurant with smiling faces as if nothing has happened.Read More »

A social worker falls in love with a teenager, and remembers an affair she had with a professor while she was at university.

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“I spent a year at the Vidal Sassoon headquarters,” brags Lydia (Brigitte Lin), a sprightly social worker trying to impress Tian-An (David Ng), a stock market whiz kid and aspiring hairstylist. It’s a fitting overture for a movie brimming with striking hair, from Tian-An’s very 1987 mullet to Cai-Wei’s very 1966 bob-with-bangs, from Dr. Zhang’s (George Lam) caterpillar mustache to Lydia’s butch-adjacent boy-cut. It works; Tian-An falls for Lydia, and despite their nearly 20-year age difference, their relationship flourishes in health and happiness—or does it?Read More »