Boat People
Boat People is a 1982 Hong Kong film directed by Ann Hui. The film stars George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, and Andy Lau. At the second Hong Kong Film Awards, Boat People won awards for Best Picture, Best Director, Best New Performer, Best Screenplay, and Best Art Direction. It was also screened out of competition at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival. In 2005, at the 24th Hong Kong Film Awards, Boat People was ranked 8th in the list of 103 best Chinese-language films in the past 100 years.
Plot
The film is shown through the point of view of a Japanese photojournalist named Shiomi Akutagawa (Lam). Three years after covering Danang during the communist takeover, Akutagawa is invited back to Vietnam to report on life after the war. He is guided by a government minder to a New Economic Zone near Danang and is shown a group of schoolchildren happily playing, singing songs praising Ho Chi Minh.
Awards
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| author | Chiu Kang Chien |
|---|---|
| award | Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film |
| contentLocation | Vietnam |
| director | Ann Hui |
| editor | Kin Kin |
| genre | drama |
| keywords | arrest beat burn chicken farm danang force ho chi minh kill minder new economic zone new economic zones program new life nhạc đỏ reactionary search set up sing singing songs praising sleep unexploded ordnance wait young man |
| musicBy | Law Wing-fai |
| producer | Xia Meng |
| productionCompany | Greenworld Company |
| publisher | Bluebird Film Company |