After This Our Exile
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| After This Our Exile | |
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| Directed by | Patrick Tam |
| Written by | Patrick Tam Tian Koi-leong |
| Produced by | Chiu Li-kuang Eric Tsang Yu Dong |
| Starring | Aaron Kwok Charlie Yeung Gouw Ian Iskandar |
| Cinematography | Pin Bing Lee |
| Edited by | Patrick Tam |
| Music by | Robert Ellis-Geiger |
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Running time | 121 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
After This Our Exile (父子, literally Father-Son) is a 2006 Hong Kong drama film directed by Patrick Tam. A critical hit, the film won both the Hong Kong Film Award for Best Film and the Golden Horse Award for Best Feature Film awards, as well as netting Aaron Kwok his second consecutive win for the Golden Horse Award for Best Actor, after having won the award for his performance in Divergence the previous year.
Plot
[edit]In hopeless pursuit of happiness, Shing (Aaron Kwok) is a man who desperately attempts to hold on to the dwindling threads of his family. Once a man who had a dream, Shing has become a deadbeat gambler whose marriage is failing with wife Lin (Charlie Yeung). Shing's machoistic ego over-rides any reasonable logic for change, which forces Lin to leave Shing repeatedly. After finally managing to escape, Shing is left with nothing but his son, Lok-Yun (Gouw Ian Iskandar).
Hoping in vain to pay back loansharks, Shing turns to his loving son, Lok-Yun, who has somehow retained his filial loyalty. In his most desperate hour, Shing forces his struggle of survival onto his son, Lok-Yun, through thievery and tests the strength of loyalty and the boundaries of trust in their father-son relationship. With each passing day, the bond of love is threatened with Shing's unrepentant ways.
Cast
[edit]- Aaron Kwok as Chow Cheung-Sheng
- Charlie Yeung as Lee Yuk-Lin
- Gouw Ian Iskandar as Chow Lok-Yun
- Kelly Lin as Fong
- Qin Hailu as Ha Je
- Valen Hsu as Jennifer
- Lester Chan as Strong Man
- Lan Hsin-mei
- Allen Lin as Sick boy's father
- Qin Hao as School bus driver
- Chui Tien-you as Chow Lok-yun (young adult)
- Wang Yi-xuan as Sick boy's mother
- Xu Liwen as Rich boy's mother
- Faith Yang
- Mak Kwai-Yuen
- Mok Kam-Weng
- Daniel Yu
Release
[edit]The movie runs for 121 minutes, but a 159 minutes long director's cut has been released in Hong Kong. The director's cut was also shown at the Asia Society in New York City on Friday, 20 July 2007, as a part of the Asian American International Film Festival.
Awards and nominations
[edit]1st Rome Film Festival
- Competition Section
11th Busan International Film Festival
- Official Selection
Tokyo International Film Festival
- Best Artistic Contribution
- Best Asian Film
10th Toronto Reel Asian International Festival
- Opening Film
- Won: Best Feature Film
- Won: Best Actor (Aaron Kwok)
- Won: Best Supporting Actor (Gouw Ian Iskandar)
- Nominated: Best New Performer
- Nominated: Best Original Screenplay
- Nominated: Best Cinematography
- Nominated: Best Makeup & Costume Design
- Won: Best Picture
- Won: Best Director (Patrick Tam)
- Won: Best Supporting Actor (Gouw Ian Iskandar)
- Won: Best Screenplay
- Won: Best New Performer (Gouw Ian Iskandar)
- Nominated: Best Actor (Aaron Kwok)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Kelly Lin)
- Nominated: Best Cinematography
- Nominated: Best Editing
References
[edit]External links
[edit]- 2006 films
- 2006 drama films
- Hong Kong drama films
- 2000s Cantonese-language films
- Films about father–son relationships
- Best Film Hong Kong Film Award winners
- Best Feature Film Golden Horse Award winners
- Films directed by Patrick Tam (film director)
- Chinese New Year films
- Films set in Malaysia
- Films shot in Malaysia
- 2000s Hong Kong films