Drama, Family
Kuen is a lounge singer on Temple Street. Her son Kakei, now a university student, returns to Hong Kong for just a few days after emigrating to Canada with his father. Kuen's colleague Kit has to work overnight and enlists Kuen’s help to take care of her young son. During the sleepless night, Kuen and Ka-kei relive their past and envisage their future through another pair of mother and son. Under the bright sun, the cycle of life and family relationships continue, made all the more touching by the nuanced moments of care and concern between each other. SHAM Ka-ki of Weeds On Fire plays the son and renders a tender and layered performance full of subtlety.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Salt of This Sea
To Spark a Wildfire
KM 100
Family of Two (A Mother and Son's Story)
Blue Hour
Pedro
Count to 100
Simon Says, Simon Says
Moon Rabbit
Pub House
Pattern
Living With Gong
Son, I Love Your Mouth 2: The Taste of the Forbidden
Night Working
Loverboy
WAJBA
MOM the Movie
My Afternoons with Margueritte
You Wouldn't Get It...
Noi Soli
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Salt of This Sea
IMDB 5.8 | Sep , 2008
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IMDB 0 | Dec , 2024
Three lonely people trying to find solace in each other and mend misunderstandings rooted in trauma, cultural taboos and old regrets.KM 100
IMDB 9.5 | Aug , 2024
Young African-Brazilian Miguel drives across the country in search of a long-lost relative to find out about his ancestry. However, a deeper understanding emerges through his encounters along the way.Family of Two (A Mother and Son's Story)
IMDB 7 | Dec , 2023
The story of Maricar whose world revolves around her son, Mateo, who she raised singlehandedly. When Mateo is moving to Singapore to pursue his career ambition and his girlfriend, he devised a plan to find a good man who can look after her mother while he is gone. At first, this made Maricar furious but eventually she saw the pure intention of her son.Blue Hour
IMDB 6 | Jan , 2021
A food delivery man’s first shif t falls on the night of June 11, 2019. Ka-ho is new to his job and needs his son to navigate for him. The two ride on the same motorbike and try their best to deliver their orders. In a bar, Tyson spends the night attempting to figure something out. Under the blue sky, up on the highway, they are heading to the next destination.Pedro
IMDB 4.6 | Jul , 2016
Pedro gets home at dawn. Before the young boy falls asleep, his lonely mother drags him to the beach.Count to 100
IMDB 4.5 | Feb , 2004
A teenage boy and his mother are on the run. The father is violent and has a history of beating up his wife. They manage to get away from him and drive far away, until they arrive in a small town where they settle down. They rent a house from a nice man and soon they forget everything that has happened in the past, until the boy begins to have bad dreams of his father.Simon Says, Simon Says
IMDB 5 | Jun , 2022
Amid changing times, as friends and relatives are leaving the city one after the other, our once familiar neighbourhood is becoming foreign. Yeung Por Por has her luggage packed for the one-way flight out of the city with her son. During her final hours in Hong Kong, she goes to the Wan Chai seaside and is shocked to find a barricaded construction site. Following Rhea, her domestic helper to the latter’s Filipino community, Yeung Por Por realises what it means to be uprooted from one’s homeland. Subtly and wistfully, the film relates the difficulties and dilemmas of migration, closing with ‘You Said We’d Be Back’ by the folk-rock duo My Little Airport.Moon Rabbit
IMDB 2 | Sep , 2018
Seven-year-old Rio visits her grandparents in Japan for the first time. She observes the beauty and unfamiliarity of the household, sensing a distance between her American family and the Japanese relatives. When her mother, Seiko, reveals an open secret during tea, the children are excused from the room and something happens behind closed doors.Pub House
IMDB 0 | May , 2024
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IMDB 10 | Sep , 2022
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IMDB 0 | Jan , 1979
Gong is a Chinese immigrant who throughout his life has faced difficulties assimilating into Thai society, yet he is regarded by people around him to have knowledge regarding the meaning of life. Yok, his grandson, lives with Gong and witnesses life through the eyes of a third generation Thai-ChineseSon, I Love Your Mouth 2: The Taste of the Forbidden
IMDB 4 | Sep , 2024
Second part of the romance between father and son. In this installment Alex introduces his new girlfriend to Gonzalo, who cannot hide his jealousy.Night Working
IMDB 0 | Jul , 2017
Lin, a migrant female worker from Cambodia, and Yeon-hee, a Korean, are friends who work together at a factory at night. One day, the two will go to the sea together for the weekend. However, the factory manager only forces Lin to work overtime on the weekend, while Lin finds out that Yeon-hee is leaving Korea for Australia soon.Loverboy
IMDB 4.9 | Jan , 2005
A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.WAJBA
IMDB 10 | Apr , 2022
A mother and her son find themselves in an awkward situation where they live in the same building but they're separated due to different reasons. Mahmood develops a system to solve this issue and the situation starts to heat up.MOM the Movie
IMDB 0 | Jun , 2022
Lebanon, Mother's day. Joey (20 years old) is preparing a surprise diner for his mom who is always abroad. but today is a special day because she is here, but not willing to stay till the evening, until they celebrate. Tortured with the idea of her leaving again, Joey tries to convince her mom to stay. But the mother is here for another reason: pushing her son to tidy his house and to accept change.My Afternoons with Margueritte
IMDB 7 | Jun , 2010
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.You Wouldn't Get It...
IMDB 0 | Dec , 2021
Jaira, Chelsea, and Alecz catch up with their friend, Sujee, who lives in Busan, Korea. Sujee is lonely and seeks people who understand her struggles as a diaspora but her friends have a different image of her life there.Noi Soli
IMDB 1 | May , 2018
A son loves his mother, because her hands were the first to welcome him. At her funeral, he steals the hearse and drives away. During the journey, the boy reminds the last weekend they spent together. Agnese takes care but doesn’t love, she’s lost in her thoughts and doesn’t let anyone get closer, not even Giulio. Two days to understand each other, two days to love each other, and to leave in the end.