| Stars and Roses | |||||||||||||||
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| Director: | Taylor Wong | ||||||||||||||
| Producer: | Yuen Kam Lun | ||||||||||||||
| Screenplay: | Ko Chung Wai | ||||||||||||||
| Starring: | Andy Lau Cherie Chung | ||||||||||||||
| Music: | Lo Tayu Richard Lo | ||||||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Herman Yau Puccini Yu | ||||||||||||||
| Editing: | A Chik Chung Chik | ||||||||||||||
| Studio: | Chun Sing Films | ||||||||||||||
| Distributor: | Chun Sing Films | ||||||||||||||
| Runtime: | 100 minutes | ||||||||||||||
| Country: | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||
| Language: | Cantonese Vietnamese Mandarin | ||||||||||||||
| Gross: | HK$13,098,194 | ||||||||||||||
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.
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.
The film was shot in Hong Kong and Vietnam.[1] [2]