The Lunatics
Din lo jing juen
Hong Kong
1986
87 Min
Color
1.85:1
Cantonese
Synopsis
Stanley Fong stars as a social worker for the mentally ill who takes reporter Deannie Yip on his monthly round of the streets. Throughout their episodic journey, Fong introduces his companion to all of the patients who choose to live on the streets and who grind out some kind of existence in the harsh Hong Kong surroundings. His patients range from a seemingly timid old lady who collects drinks cans, a dishevelled father (Chow Yun Fat) who has no hope of properly raising his two children and a disturbed man (Tony Leung) who frequents the local fish market. Fong’s one success is a divorced father (Paul Chun Pui) who now lives with his mother after a severe breakdown. However, circumstances soon change and eventually spiral towards a tragic conclusion. —Far East Films
Director
Derek Yee
Derek Yee Tung-sing (simplified Chinese: 尔冬升; traditional Chinese: 爾冬陞; Mandarin Pinyin: Ěr Dōngshēng; Jyutping: Yee5 Tung1 Sing1), born in 1957, is a former Shaw Brothers actor from Hong Kong, currently a film director and screenwriter, who has achieved fame and respect in Hong Kong and international film festival circuits for treading carefully commercial viability concerns with artistic integrity. He is the younger half-brother of famed Hong Kong actors Paul Chun and David Chiang, the latter also a former Shaw Brothers star.
Yee has starred in over 40 movies in Hong Kong between 1975 and 1986, during the time when Shaw Brothers Studio were still producing movies. Since then Yee turned to screenwriting and directing and has made a career out of making films like C’est la vie, mon chéri, Viva Erotica and The Truth About Jane and Sam and also gritty dramas like One Night in Mongkok and Protégé.
Derek Yee was a former boyfriend of Hong Kong actress Maggie Cheung. —Wikipedia… read more
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