Choy Ji Talks Shifting Hong Kong-Mainland China Ties In Cross-Border Drama ‘Borrowed Time’ – Pingyao
deadline.comGuangzhou-based director Choy Ji has filmed Hong Kong from a perspective we’ve rarely seen before in his debut feature Borrowed Time, which played at Pingyao film festival this week after screening in Busan’s New Currents competition.
Produced by Mo Jinjin and executive produced by Stanley Kwan, the Cantonese-language drama follows a young girl from Guangzhou (capital of China’s Guangdong province) who travels to Hong Kong to look for the father she hasn’t seen in 20 years – and who she knows has an entirely separate family on the other side of the border.
During the visit, she bumps into an old acquaintance as a typhoon is closing in on the city and they embark on a fantastical journey together while spending the night in a rundown tenement apartment.
Apart from Hong Kong actor Tai Bo (Twilight’s Kiss), the cast of the film mostly comprises non-professional actors, including Lin Dongping playing the young girl.
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