投奔怒海 (1982)

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Boat People is a 1982 Hong Kong war drama film directed by Ann Hui from a screenplay by Xia Meng, and starring George Lam, Cora Miao, Season Ma, and Andy Lau. It is the third and final film in Hui's "Vietnam trilogy", after Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam (1978) and The Story of Woo Viet (1981). It recounts the plight of the Vietnamese people under communist rule following the Fall of Saigon ending the Vietnam War. This was the first Hong Kong production to be filmed in mainland China.

Production

In the late 1970s, a great number of Vietnamese refugees flooded Hong Kong. In 1979, Hui was making the documentary A Boy from Vietnam for the RTHK network. In the process of making the film, she collected many interviews conducted with Vietnamese refugees about life in Vietnam following the Fall of Saigon.

The People's Republic of China, just ending a war with Vietnam, gave Hui permission to film on Hainan Island. Boat People was the first Hong Kong movie filmed in mainland China. Hui saved a role for Chow Yun-Fat, but because at that time Hong Kong actors working in mainland China were banned in Taiwan, Chow Yun-Fat declined the role out of fear for being blacklisted.

The film's English title is misleading: Boat People does not tell the story of boat people, it instead tells the plight of Vietnamese people under communist rule, the reason causing them to become boat people. The Chinese title, literally meaning "Run Towards the Angry Sea" or "Into the Raging Sea", more accurately describes the film's content.

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