After This Our Exile
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After This Our Exile
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A young boy finds his unwavering loyalty to his loutish dad sealing a decidedly grim fate in Hong Kong director-turned-editor Patrick Tam's first directorial effort since his 1989 thriller My Heart Is That Eternal Rose. There was a time when Chow Cheong-shing (Aaron Kwok) was considered a smooth-talking ladies' man, but many years of gambling have turned him into a bitter and abusive shell of his former self. When Chow's admiring young son (Gow Ian Iskander) reveals to his father that his mother is packing her bags and planning a hasty getaway, the enraged Chow delivers a merciless beating to the woman that leaves father and son to fend for themselves. Now forced to resort to petty thievery as a means of helping dad pay off a series of lingering gambling debts, the young boy soon ends up locked away in a juvenile-detention facility. Soon thereafter, when Chow drops by to visit his son, the boy launches a vicious attack on his father that drives the pair apart for more than a decade. Years later, Chow's son has grown into a man, and is suddenly stricken with an overpowering bout of nostalgia and that leads him back to his old hometown and the quiet streets of his youth. Just then, far off in the distance, the emotionally scarred son catches a glimpse of a man who appears to be his father. ~ Jason Buchanan, RoviCast
- Aaron Kwok - Chow Cheong Shing
- Charlie Yeung
- Ng King-To
- Gow Ian Iskander
- Hsu Ru-yun
- Kelly Lin
- Valen Hsu
- Qin Hailu
Credit
Patrick Tam - Art Director, Cyrus Ho - Art Director, Cary Cheng - Associate Producer, Tian Koi-leong - First Assistant Director, Cary Cheng - First Assistant Director, Patrick Tam - Director, Patrick Tam - Editor, Leong Lee-ping - Executive Producer, Robert Jay Ellis-Geiger - Composer (Music Score), Mark Lee - Cinematographer, Lee Pin-bing - Cinematographer, Chiu Li-kuang - Producer, Kinson Tsang - Sound/Sound Designer, Patrick Tam - Screenwriter, Aaron Kwok - Screenwriter, Valen Hsu - Screenwriter, Tian Koi-leong - Screenwriter, Ng King-To - Screenwriter, Charlie Young - Screenwriter, Tin Kai-Leong - Screenwriter| After That Crocodile (1972 Film), After Sunset: The Life and Times of the Drive-In Theater (1996 Film) | |
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After This Our Exile
| After This Our Exile | |
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| Directed by | Patrick Tam |
| Produced by | Li-kuang Chiu Eric Tsang Yu Dong |
| Starring | Aaron Kwok Charlie Yeung Gouw Ian Iskandar |
| Music by | Robert Ellis-Geiger |
| Cinematography | Pin Bing Lee |
| Editing by | Patrick Tam |
After This Our Exile (父子 literally Father-Son) is a 2006 Hong Kong film directed by Patrick Tam.
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Plot
In hopeless pursuit of happiness, Shing (Aaron Kwok) is a man who desperately attempts to hold on to the dwindling threads of his family. Once a man who had a dream, Shing has become a deadbeat gambler whose marriage is failing with wife Lin (Charlie Yeung). Shing's machoistic ego overrides any reasonable logic for change, which forces Lin to leave Shing repeatedly. After finally managing to escape, Shing is left with nothing but his son, Lok-Yun (Goum Ian Iskandar).
Hoping in vain to pay back loansharks, Shing turns to his loving son, Lok-Yun, who has somehow retained his filial loyalty. In his most desperate hour, Shing forces his struggle of survival onto his son, Lok-Yun, through thievery and tests the strength of loyalty and the boundaries of trust in their father-son relationship. With each passing day, the bond of love is threatened with Shing's unrepentant ways.
Cast
- Aaron Kwok - Chow Cheung-Sheng
- Charlie Yeung - Lee Yuk-Lin
- Gouw Ian Iskandar - Chow Lok-Yun
- Kelly Lin - Fong
- Qin Hailu - Ha Je
- Valen Hsu - Jennifer
- Lester Chit-Man Chan - Strong Man
- Lan Hsin-mei
- Allen Lin - Sick boy's father
- Qin Hao - School bus driver
- Tsui Ting Yau - Chow Lok-yun (young adult)
- Wang Yi-xuan - Sick boy's mother
- Xu Liwen - Rich boy's mother
- Faith Yang
Release
The movie runs for 121 minutes, but a 159 minutes long director's cut has been released in Hong Kong. The director's cut was also shown at the Asia Society in New York City on Friday, July 20, 2007, as a part of the Asian American International Film Festival.
Awards and nominations
1st Rome Film Festival
- Competition Section
11th Pusan International Film Festival
- Official Selection
Tokyo International Film Festival
- Best Artistic Contribution
- Best Asian Film
10th Toronto Reel Asian International Festival
- Opening Film
43rd Golden Horse Awards
- Won: Best Feature Film
- Won: Best Actor (Aaron Kwok)
- Won: Best Supporting Actor (Gouw Ian Iskandar)
- Nominated: Best New Performer
- Nominated: Best Original Screenplay
- Nominated: Best Cinematography
- Nominated: Best Makeup & Costume Design
- Won: Best Picture
- Won: Best Director (Patrick Tam)
- Won: Best Supporting Actor (Gouw Ian Iskandar)
- Won: Best Screenplay
- Won: Best New Performer (Gouw Ian Iskandar)
- Nominated: Best Actor (Aaron Kwok)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress (Kelly Lin)
- Nominated: Best Cinematography
- Nominated: Best Editing
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| Awards | ||
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| Preceded by Kung Fu Hustle |
Golden Horse Awards for Best Film 2006 |
Succeeded by Lust, Caution |
| Preceded by Election |
Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Film 2007 |
Succeeded by The Warlords |
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