Blossoms Under Somewhere (2024)

Interesting facts

Blossoms Under Somewhere is a 2024 Hong Kong drama film directed and co-written by Riley Yip, marking her directorial debut as part of the First Feature Film Initiative, and produced by Fruit Chan. Starring Marife Yau and Sheena Chan as a pair of schoolgirls, the film explores their experiences while selling lingerie they have worn online and the unexpected attention they attracted.

Production

After co-writing Weeds on Fire (2016), screenwriter Riley Yip initially decided to leave the film industry to study aviation in Adelaide and pursue a career as a pilot. While awaiting her pilot examination results, she learned that the First Feature Film Initiative had increased its budget and winner quotas, and producer Steve Chan encouraged her to join the project.

Due to the controversial subject matter of selling used lingeries, Yip described the film as focusing on "a business surrounding subculture" while advertising for the auditions. Casting lasted two months, during which some participants dropped out upon learning the film's true context. After struggling to find an actress for Rachel, Yip approached Sheena Chan after her friend showed her a music video of a Taiwanese singer featuring Chan.

Principal photography began in late March 2023, shortly after the controversial release of the schoolgirl-themed documentary To My Nineteen-Year-Old Self (2022), leading the school that had initially leased its campus to the crew to withdraw permission on the second day of filming due to the controversy.

Yip initially opposed filming close-up shots of the lingerie, but she proceeded at the advice of Fruit Chan and later found that footage very useful during post-production editing. The film's title was changed to Blossoms Under Somewhere after production was completed, as Yip had originally envisioned it as an art-house film but found the tone to be "not as dramatic" after filming wrapped, prompting a title change following discussions with Chan.…

Blossoms Under Somewhere was scored by Sara Fung. Its theme song, "Laki Kaki", was composed by Fung, with lyrics by Yvette Wong and Chow Yiu-fai, and performed by Marife Yau. It also featured an interlude titled "Something About You", co-performed by Yau and Sheena Chan.

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