A ROMANTIC TALE OF JACKIE CHAN'S PARENTS' LOVE STORY
Against the backdrop of China's tumultuous war-torn 20th century, Hong Kong director Mabel Cheung (張婉婷) and her screenwriting-producing husband Alex Law (羅啟銳) create a romantic classic based on the real-life story of Jackie Chan's parents, Daolong and Yuerong. Yuerong (Tang Wei, 汤唯) is a young widow who is forced to peddle opium in order to support her two little daughters. She is one day stopped by Daolong (Sean Lau, 刘青云) who is an officer at a river checkpoint. He decides to her go, and that's the beginning of their love story. When Daolong — who is actually a former spy — becomes the target of both the Nationalists and the Communists, the couple is forced to escape across a country devastated by famine and war. Faced with tremendous dangers and separated for years at a time, A Tale of Three Cities (三城记) is the story of their courage and determination to stay together.
To be honest not many HK films in the recent years have really inspired me, but I'll definitely give this one a try mainly because the filmmaker duo Mabel-Alex has given in my opinion one of the best HK films of all times, Echoes of the Rainbow (歲月神偷, 2010) which won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in the Children's Jury "Generation Kplus" category at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
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