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Boat People ()

Tau ban no hoi (original title)
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A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the Liberation and learns harsh truths about its regime and its "New Economic Zones".
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Shiomi Akutagawa (as George Chi-Cheung Lam)
Season Ma ...
Cam Nuong
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To Minh (as Andy Tak-Wah Lau)
Meiying Jia ...
Le Van Quyen (as Mei-Ying Jia)
Mung-Sek Kei
Junyi Guo ...
Van Lang (as Jia-Ling Hao)
Shujing Lin ...
Comrade Vu (as Shu-Jin Lin)
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Nguyen's Mistress (as Cora Chien-Jen Miao)
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Jianzhou Cai ...
Monitor
Tung-Sheng Chang ...
Doctor
Gamhung Cheung ...
Ah Thanh
Shui-Chiu Gan
Hengbao Guo ...
Leader of Team 15
Jialing Hao ...
Cam Nuong's Mother
Tao Lin ...
Leader of Team 16
Pingmei Meng ...
Mrs. Pham
Mengshi Qi ...
Comrade Nguyen
Huangwen Wang ...
To Minh's Father
Shouquan Wang ...
Inoue
Shujun Wu ...
Van Nhac

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Ann Hui ... (as Ann On-Wah Hui)

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Cheung Gam Hung ... (story)
 
Kang-Chien Chiu ... (script) (as An-Ping Tai)

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Meng Xia ... producer (produced by) (as Hsia Meng)

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Wing-Fai Law

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David Chung
Zong Ji Huang
Chung Kay Wong

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Kin Kin

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Tony Au

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Saan-Ngai Wong

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San-Yee Wong ... makeup artist

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Janlei Chui ... production manager
Seung-Kwok Lee ... production manager

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Stanley Kwan ... assistant director

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Shi-Cheng Yang ... props

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Fan Lee ... sound recordist
Hong Lu ... sound recordist

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Lai Pan ... still photographer (as Yuk Mok Pok)

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Plot Summary

A Japanese reporter arrives in Vietnam hoping to capture the essence the society under the rule of the Communist Party. With the help of a vietnamese girl, he eventually opens his eyes to the painful truth of postwar Vietnam. Written by Cha

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Also Known As
  • Boat People (Hong Kong, English title)
  • Tou ben nu hai (Hong Kong, Mandarin title)
  • Boat People (Canada, English title)
  • Boat People (Singapore, English title)
  • Boat People (United States)
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  • 109 min
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Cumulative Worldwide Gross HKD15,475,087

Did You Know?

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Trivia The film's English title is misleading: Boat People does not tell the story of boat people, it instead tells the plight of Vietnamese people under communist rule, the reason causing them to become boat people. The Chinese title, literally meaning "Run Towards the Angry Sea", more accurately describes the film's content. See more »
Goofs At the dinner a waiter pours a beer for the journalist with a head of 3-4 cm. After the cut to another angle, only 1 cm is left. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Keep Rolling (2020). See more »
Soundtracks La Vie en Rose See more »
Quotes Comrade Nguyen: They're too young, Comrade Le and Comrade Vu. They're too eager. They lose proportion. When I see how determined they are... I think I must have been weak when I was young. It makes me feel old.
Shiomi Akutagawa: You aren't old.
Comrade Nguyen: Recently I've been thinking a lot about my youth... here and Paris, drinking French wine, eating French food... even longing for a French woman. I must be old! The Revolution claimed half of my life. And now I realized I'm old. My mind still lives in the colonial past. Vietnam has won her Revolution. But I've lost mine! I know where to get the best French food in Danang. I'll take you there sometime.
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