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Bucheon Choice: Feature

Port of Call

Philip YUNG

Hong Kong2015 120min D-Cinema Color Korean Premiere

Synopsis

A 16-year-old prostitute is murdered; her body cut up and flushed down the toilet, and her severed head thrown into Victoria Harbor. Detective Chong begins investigation. This film focuses on each character and their family, instead of investigation of its case. This film makes us confront of an atmospheric mosaic of human lives and actions that invariably get complicated, out of order and beyond reason.

Diretor

Philip YUNG

Yung has worked in film and TV production since 1998. In 2009, he wrote and directed his first feature film Glamorous Youth. It was highly acclaimed as a stunning work that the film was invited to be screened at
numerous film festivals including Hong Kong International Film Festival, Asiatica Film Mediale Festival in Rome. His film Port of Call won the Hong Kong–Asia Film Financing Forum’s HAF Award.