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Director
  
Taylor Wong

Country
  
Hong Kong

6/10
IMDb

Duration
  

Stars and Roses movie poster

Language
  
CantoneseVietnameseMandarin

Release date
  
21 December 1989 (1989-12-21)

Stars and Roses (orig. Ai ren tong zhi)is a 1989 Hong Kong drama film directed by Taylor Wong starring Andy Lau as a photo journalist from Hong Kong and Cherie Chung as a Vietnamese translator.

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Plot

Lau Kai Cho (Andy Lau) travels to Vietnam for a story. Once in Vietnam, he briefly meets Yuen Hung (Cherie Chung), a translator and is involved in an accident after crashing a motorised rickshaw. The courts hand him a prison sentence in a strict prison where he is subject to a number of horrible punishments.

While in prison, he meets Yuen's brother, upon his release, Lau and Yuen become more friendly until Lau is imprisoned again for anti-government activity. Sentenced to 3 years he plots to escape from prison taking Yuen Hung's brother with him.

Cast

  • Andy Lau as Lau Kai Cho
  • Cherie Chung as Yuen Hung
  • Sheila Chan as Lawyer Chan
  • Shing Fui-On as Chen Fei Ehn
  • Hung San-Nam
  • Lam Wai as Hung's boyfriend
  • Lau Chun-Fai
  • Leung Ming
  • Lung Ming-Yan as Nam
  • Wai Gei-Shun

    • Production

    The film was shot in Hong Kong and Vietnam

    References

    Stars and Roses Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Stars and Roses IMDb Stars and Roses themoviedb.org