浮城 Floating City

 

導演 | 嚴浩
主演 | 郭富城、楊采妮、鮑起靜、何超儀、劉心悠、鄭家星

劇情 / 

九十年代初期，布華泉（郭富城）才四十歲，已經擢升至英國香港帝國東印度公司的管理階層，風頭直蓋洋人，可謂一時無兩。他出生於漁民家庭，二十歲才念小學一年級，他去面試的時候，學歷一欄上只填上“識字”二字，如何能在往後的日子掙扎成為華人大班，除了憑一己之努力外，還配合了英國將管治香港殖民地的主權交回中國的時間因素 。

布華泉的長相也不像是純種中國人，人們都很詫異為什麼在避風塘會出現一個像外國人的漁民？阿泉也很想知道自己身世的秘密，他有六個弟妹，全跟他的長相都不一樣，他很想問明原委，但雙親總不肯透露端倪，每次總落得捱打下場。

一次出海遇到颱風，泉父葬身大海，從此泉媽（何超儀/鮑起靜）肩負重責，除了照顧孩子們，還負上很多債項，逼得把子女有的送進孤兒院，有的送給親戚，自己就到別人船上做工。

這時候，阿泉通過友人劉超力（梁祖堯）的引領，考進了帝國東印度公司做雜役，阿泉可以一邊工作，一邊讀書。阿泉在上升期間，認識了一位由外國回來的時尚職業女性 – Fion（劉心悠），在職場上，這位既漂亮又能幹的女士切切實實的幫了阿泉不少。阿泉在事業上拼搏而忽略家庭，新的地位帶來了新的煩惱，青梅竹馬的妻子阿娣（楊采妮）承受了很多內心的煎熬。

另一方面，泉媽從沒有放棄過骨肉團聚的希望，她努力認字，誓要考取船主牌，爭取讓孩子回到船上一家團聚。這時候已到了1997，香港政權交接前連日暴雨，在英國國旗降下前，阿泉發現了自己樣子像外國人的秘密...

 

香港上映 : 2012年5月19日

全國上映 : 2012年5月11日

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浮城 Floating City   (Action / Drama)

Director: Yim Ho
Starring: Aaron Kwok, Charlie Yeung, Nina Paw, Josie Ho, Annie Liu, Carlson Cheng

In the early 1990s, Bo Wah Chuen (Aaron Kwok) attracts great attention as a business executive in the Imperial East India Company of Hong Kong, his prominence overshadowing even that of his British superiors. However, twenty years ago, when he takes the company’s entry test, all he has to show for himself is the plea, “I could read and write”. His rise to prominence has as much to do with British’s imminent return of Hong Kong to China, as it has to do with his considerable ability.

To the astonishment of many, Bo Wah Chuen looks nothing like a Chinese. As a child, he has to endure much jeering as he looks nothing like his six siblings. People are amazed at the sight of a Caucasian looking fisherman in colonial Hong Kong. Though he is desperate to discover the origin of his peculiar features, every time he asks his parents, all he could get out of them is a good beating.

Chuen’s father dies in a fishing accident. His mother (Josie Ho/Nina Paw) incurs his father’s debts, forcing her to send her older children off to an orphanage, and the younger ones to various foster homes, in order to lessen the financial burden. 

Meanwhile, thanks to his friend Lau Chiu Lik (Joe Leung), Chuen is initiated into the Imperial East India Company. Starting out as a lowly office assistant, Chuen gradually climbs up the company’s hierarchy, while attending night school on the side. During this crucial period, he is befriended by Fion (Annie Liu), a westernized, upper-class lady who provides Chuen with much needed advice on his conduct in the parochial world of a colonial trading company. In the meantime, however, his wife Tai (Charlie Yeung), similarly from a fishing background, feels increasingly isolated from this new reality. With Chuen’s help, his mother turns herself from an illiterate wife of a fisherman to the first woman in Hong Kong to acquire a boating license. The family is finally united. On the eve of Hong Kong’s handover to China, as the British flag is lowered down in the stormy weather, Chuen discovers the secret of his origin ...

Release Date : 19th May 2012 (Hong Kong)   
Release Date : 11th May 2012 (China)