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Profile
- Movie: Written By
- Chinese: 再生号 (Joi sun ho)
- Director: Ka-Fai Wai
- Writer: Ka-Fai Wai, Kin-Yee Au
- Producer: Tiffany Chen, Charles Heung, Ka-Fai Wai
- Cinematographer: Wing-Hung Wong
- Release Date: July 10, 2009
- Runtime: 85 min
- Language: Cantonese
- Country: Hong Kong
Plot
Ching Wan Lau plays a lawyer who dies in a car accident, leaving his daughter, Melody (Mia Yam), blind and making his wife a widow. To cheer up her mom, Melody writes a book in which the family died but dad survived. And in her book, to cheer himself up, dad decides to write a book in which he died in the accident but his wife and daughter survived....and so it goes in an endlessly recursive loop as the dead are resurrected in fiction, which bleeds into reality, which turns into tragedy which sends the story spinning off into greater and grander realms of fantasy as mourning children and their parents attempt to have one more minute, just another thirty seconds, with their departed loved ones. -- NYAFF
Cast
- Ching Wan Lau - Tony
- Kelly Lin - Mandy
- Mia Yam - Melody
- Jo Kuk - Meng Por
- Man-Wai Wong - Ghost Whisperer
- Yaqi Zeng - Little Melody
Trailer
Film Festivals
- 2009 (8th) New York Asian Film Festival - June 19-July 5, 2009 (World Premiere)
- 2009 (28th) Vancouver International Film Festival - October 1-16, 2009 - Dragons and Tigers (Canadian Premiere)
- 2010 (34th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 21-April 6, 2010 - Hong Kong Panorama 2009-2010
- 2011 (35th) Hong Kong International Film Festival - March 20 - April 5, 2011 - Wai Ka-fai, Filmmaker in Focus
