HOME AT HONG KONG is an interesting social and political drama that shines a light on various contemporary issues of the era. I found it quite engrossing, although it's also slow-paced and dour at times; there are some romantic sub-plots which slow the pacing down quite unnecessarily. Andy Lau stars right at the outset of his career and is still very baby-faced at this point, although he's supported by such luminaries as Ku Feng. The political angle is well handled and telling.
6.4Plot summary
Alan Wong (Andy Lau) is a Hong Kong youth who is bent to climb up the social ladder. With the help of a foreign businessman's mistress and mixed ethnicity woman Erica (Carroll Gordon),he joins a real estate company and he knows how to grasp on to opportunities and gets into high position. Later he meets Cheung Ting Ting (Chu Hoi Ling),a Mainland Chinese girl who illegally came to Hong Kong and sees her pities her and also falls in love in her. When real estate falls into low tide, many foreign businessmen leaves Hong Kong while Alan and Erica refuses to immigrate overseas. Out of jealousy, Erica informs the police that Ting is an illegally immigrant and she suicides forever. Alan and Ting disguise as Vietnamese refugees to escape however Ting refuses to do this. Uncle Fu (Ku Feng),a watchman who always wished to die in his ancestry home loses his life while helping Ting escape. Another youth, Lee Kin Fai's (Newton Lai) girlfriend, due to her family's eagerness to immigrate, was married to a cabaret manager who helps her family to Hong Kong. Fai loses his self-esteem and loses sanity after being injured in a boxing match.
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Good acting in a terrible mess of a storyline...
I had the opportunity to sit down to watch the 1983 movie "Home at Hong Kong" (aka "Ga joi Heung Gong") here in 2021. Needless to say that with my fascination and interest in the Hong Kong cinema, the fact that Andy Lau was in the movie, and the fact that I hadn't already seen it, made me sit down to watch it.
But this 1983 movie from writer Wengui Chen and director Hoi Lam Ging wasn't exactly my cup of tea. The storyline was just all over the place, feeling like a random and chaotic script instead of having a clear and present red thread throughout the course of the movie. It made me lose interest in the storyline rather quickly, and the movie just felt monotonous.
While I do enjoy the Hong Kong cinema quite a lot, I would not personally consider "Home at Hong Kong" to be a classic, nor a particularly important movie in the Hong Kong cinema. Sure, it was one of the earlier movies with Andy Lau, but that was about all the appeal that there was here.
And the acting performance by Andy Lau is what essentially carried this movie, because the storyline was just a swing and a miss.
Having sat through this movie, it is definitely not a movie that I will be returning to watch a second time. In fact, just getting through it the first time was difficult enough.
My rating of "Home at Hong Kong" lands on a mere three out of ten stars.