Themes: Immigrant Life, Fish Out of Water, Women's Friendship
Main Cast: Chow Yun-Fat, Cherie Chung, Danny Chan
Release Year: 1987
Country: HK
Run Time: 98 minutes
Plot
Mabel Chueng directs this wildly popular romantic comedy featuring Chow Yun-fat. With two years worth of savings and starry-eyed ambitions of being an actor, Jennifer Lee (Cherie Chung) leaves her comfortable home in Hong Kong for more modest digs in New York City, above the abode of her bumptious cousin, Figurehead (Chow). When her effete longtime boyfriend, Vincent (Danny Chan), dumps her and heads for Boston, Jennifer is left thunderstruck and deeply lonely. Figurehead goes all out to cheer up his pretty relative by buying her Broadway tickets and redecorating her apartment. Soon he finds himself falling for the lass though he is self-conscious about his humble upbringing, compulsive gambling, and coarse ways. Jennifer loves being around Figurehead but cannot imagine being married to him. Things get worse for the earthy protagonist when Vincent returns to New York, hoping to patch things up. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide
Yank Wong - Art Director, Mabel Cheung - Director, Dickson Poon - Executive Producer, Lowell Lo - Composer (Music Score), David Chung - Cinematographer, James Hayman - Cinematographer, John Sham - Producer, Alex Law - Screenwriter
An Autumn's Tale (traditional Chinese: 秋天的童話) is a 1987Hong Kong-made romantic drama set in New York City starring Chow Yun Fat (character: Bow Ulnar), Cherie Chung (character: Li Ki) and Danny Chan (character: Vincent). Mabel Cheung is the director, and the movie is the second of her "migration trilogy."
The movie won the Hong Kong Film Awards for Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Movie in 1988. Chow also picked up the Best Actor award at the Golden Horse Film Festival, a prestigious award ceremony that is known as the "Academy Awards of the East." The film is listed at #49 on the Hong Kong Film Awards' Best 100 Chinese Films of the Century.
