Comrades: Almost a Love Story (1996)

Directors

Peter Chan

Cast

Christopher Doyle, Eric Tsang, Irene Tsu, Kristy Yang, Leon Lai, Maggie Cheung

The story

The film, spanning years, centres on two Chinese mainlanders who migrate to Hong Kong to make a living, but end up falling in love. Leon Lai plays a naive Northerner, Li Xiao-Jun, who moves to Hong Kong with the intention of bringing his fiancée Fang Xiaoting to Hong Kong, and Maggie Cheung plays Li Qiao, an opportunist and Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou who takes advantage of mainlanders like herself for financial gains. The loneliness of living in the big city inevitably brings the two into a passionate love affair.

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