Boat People

Boat People (1983)Cast and Crew

Movie

Cast

G
George Lam Chi-Cheung
as Shiomi Akutagawa
S
Season Ma
as Cam Nuong
C
Cora Miao
as Nguyen's Mistress
A
Andy Lau Tak-Wah
as To Minh
T
Tung-Sheng Chang
as Doctor
Q
Qi Mengshi
as Comrade Nguyen
J
Jialing Hao
as Cam Nuong's Mother
M
Meiying Jia
as Le Van Quyen
S
Shujing Lin
as Comrade Wu
T
Tao Lin
as Leader of Team 16

Crew

A
Ann Hui
Director
C
Chiu Kang-Chien
Screenplay
K
Kin Kin
Editor
C
Chung Kay Wong
Director of Photography
S
Stanley Kwan
Assistant Director
L
Law Wing-Fai
Music
H
Hsia Meng
Producer
T
Tony Au Ting-Ping
Art Direction

Vietnam Trilogy

Long before Hong Kong declared itself the ‘first port of asylum’ for Vietnamese refugees in 1979, tens of thousands of Vietnamese had already been flocking to the city by cargo ships in the four years prior. Ann Hui made her first creative endeavour to chronicle this chapter of Hong Kong’s history with acute insights in the TV drama Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam. Subsequently, as Vietnamese migrants became an increasingly contentious issue in Hong Kong, Hui directed two more films on the same topic, The Story of Woo Viet and Boat People. Collectively, these three works became known as the Vietnam Trilogy, marking the stellar rise of Hui’s filming career.