Weeds on Fire (2016)
點五步
Inspired by the true story of Hong Kong’s first teenage baseball team. In the 1980s, two childhood friends join the Shatin Martins, a Band 3 school baseball team managed by the school principal. From these humble beginnings, the boys experience camaraderie, fall in love and make fateful decisions that resonate throughout their lives amid a changing Hong Kong and its sporting world.
- Date of release
- 2016-04-23
- TMDB
- 6.3 / 10 (18)
- Runtime
- 1h 35m
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Director
- Steve Chan Chi Fat
Casting
- Liu Kai-chi — Principal Lo Kwong Fai
- Sham Ka-ki — Chan Keung
- Lam Yiu-sing — Tse Chi-Lung
- Tony Wu Tsz-tung — Fan Chun-Wai
- Poon Chan-Leung — Mr Tsang
- Suen Lik-Man — Lung's father
- Hedwig Tam — Tsz Ching
- Maria Wong Si-Man — Lung's dream lover
- Jan Lam Hoi-fung — Narrator (voice)
- Will Or Wai-Lam — Dung
- Himmy Wong — Li Wang
- Shui Jie — Lung's mother
Interesting facts
Weeds on Fire is a 2016 Hong Kong film adapted from the true story of the Shatin Martins, the first baseball team from Hong Kong to win a league. The film is directed by Steve Chan Chi-fat and stars Liu Kai-chi, Lam Yiu-sing and Tony Wu. The film was released on 25 August 2016.
Production
The director Chan Chi-fat (Steve Chan) and scriptwriter Wong Chi-yeung are alumni of the Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University. Chan won the First Feature Film Initiative competition (Higher Education Institutions Group) of Creative Hong Kong in 2013 and was awarded a budget of HK$2 million by the Film Development Fund.
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