Fly Me to the Moon

Fly Me to the Moon (2024)

但願人長久

Sisters moving from Hunan to Hong Kong in the 1990s are faced with an identity crisis, poverty, and their father's drug addiction.

Date of release
2024-04-11
TMDB
7.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama
Director
Sasha Chuk Tsz-yin

Casting

Interesting facts

Fly Me to the Moon is a 2023 Hong Kong family drama film directed and written by Sasha Chuk, and produced by Stanley Kwan and Jun Li. Chuk also stars in a lead role, alongside Angela Yuen and Wu Kang-ren, as a Hunanese girl who immigrated to Hong Kong at a young age and faces poverty, discrimination and family issues.

Production

In 2017, Chinese literature graduate Sasha Chuk published a semi-autobiographical novella Farewell of Summer, based on her personal experience as a mainland native who immigrated to Hong Kong when she was six years old. She began adapting her book into a screenplay while filming the short film Plain Sailing, and was encouraged by producer Jun Li to take on the lead acting role simultaneously.

Principal photography began in July 2022. Filming was intended to take place in Hong Kong and Tokyo, but due to budget constraints, Chuk was only able to afford a four-member production crew while filming in Japan, and some scenes had to be rewritten to film in Taiwan. Chuk also served as the Hunanese tutor on set. Filming ultimately wrapped in December 2022.

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