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Jun arrives in Hong Kong from mainland China, hoping to be able to earn enough money to marry his girlfriend back home. He meets the streetwise Qiao, and they become friends. As friendship turns into love, problems develop, and although they seem meant for each other, they somehow keep missing out. Edit Translation

  • English
  • Português (Brasil)
  • magyar / magyar nyelv
  • dansk
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Nov 2, 1996
  • Duration: 1 hr. 58 min.
  • Score: 7.9 (scored by 374 users)
  • Ranked: #2808
  • Popularity: #8602
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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Shiro
2 people found this review helpful
5 days ago
Completed 0
Overall 8.0
Story 8.0
Acting/Cast 8.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 6.0

It is all in the shades...

This is a morally ambiguous story about a naive man who moves to Hong Kong to seek a better life for himself and his girlfriend but finds himself changing as fast as the city and well... ends up taking all kinds of turns that may or may not give him and the girl a better life but also throw him on a journey of change, lust and falling in love with someone else than the girl he was supposed to seek a better life for.

There is a strange realism to this story playing with shades of morality and taking us away from the one true love many seem to adore.

Our female lead is really fun, cool and great at speaking her mind while still showcasing some kind of voulnarabilaty and the ability to keep two ideas in her head at the sam time.

There are some interesting lines and schenes that show about relativity and change.

A pretty decent film

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Elisheva
1 people found this review helpful
Jul 23, 2023
Completed 0
Overall 9.0
Story 9.0
Acting/Cast 10
Music 9.0
Rewatch Value 8.0

Deservedly well respected Hong Kong classic, with extra meaning for Thai drama lovers

This is the film which means so much to Uncle Jim in Moonlight Chicken. And to screenwriter/director P'Aof, who took a key song in the film for his OST and set the drama in Pattaya, which has a tangential connection to the film. So not just a great recommendation for a beautiful film but also a way to more fully understand his character's inner life.

Comrades doesn't disappoint. It's set in crowded urban environments but much of it is tightly focused, concentrating on two characters at a time. A conversation in a narrow hall at a party, in a car, the McDonald's queue. It's story isn't complex and, like Moonlight Chicken, has few events external to the key relationships. I first wrote that there's more pain in Comrades but that's not true. Moonlight surrounds all of its pain with so much love while Comrades is far lonelier. Its main characters become close because they're all they have in this city.

The film is calm, gentle, and quietly poignant. It takes its time and it's well worth some of ours.




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  • Movie: Comrades: Almost a Love Story
  • Country: Hong Kong
  • Release Date: Nov 2, 1996
  • Duration: 1 hr. 58 min.
  • Content Rating: 15+ - Teens 15 or older

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  • Score: 7.9 (scored by 374 users)
  • Ranked: #2808
  • Popularity: #8602
  • Watchers: 906

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