Floating City

[Machine Translation] The long-awaited new film by master director Yim Ho, after a seven-year absence! A baby sold to a poor family living on the water leads a turbulent life. A gem of a human drama based on a true story. --In the late 1940s, a child born to a British soldier and a Hong Kong woman was purchased by a poor Protean couple. The baby is named Hua Chuan and grows up on a ship. His mother loved him without discrimination, even though he was ridiculed. One day, Hua Chuan was encouraged to study by a Catholic priest, and with his mother's encouragement, he got off the ship and began to study letters at the church's night school. When he learns that he is a purchased child, he begins to work himself to the bone as the eldest son. Eventually, he was hired as a scullery maid at the East India Company, which he had longed to work for, and through tireless efforts, he gradually rose to prominence, eventually becoming the first Chinese to hold the post of executive director. But somewhere along the way, Hua Chuan always kept asking himself the question, "Who am I? Time passed, and the time came for Hong Kong to be returned to China. Hua Chuan visits the place where he was once sold as a baby and is told the secret of his birth...

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巨匠イム・ホー監督、七年ぶりとなる待望の新作!! 貧しい水上生活家族に売られた赤ん坊が辿る波乱の人生。実話に基づく珠玉のヒューマンドラマ。――1940年代末、イギリス兵と香港女性の間に生まれた子供が貧しい蛋民の夫婦に買い取られた。赤ん坊は華泉と名付けられ、船の上で成長。揶揄される彼を母は分け隔てなく可愛がった。ある日、華泉はカトリックの牧師から勉学を勧められ、母の後押しもあり、船を降りて教会の夜学で文字を学び始める。自分が買われた子だと知った彼は、長男として身を粉にして働き出す。やがて憧れの東インド会社に雑用係として採用され、たゆまぬ努力を重ねて次第に頭角を現し、ついには中国人として初の重役にまで上りつめたが、華泉は常にどこかで「自分は何者なのか?」と問い続けていた。時は流れ、香港が中国に返還される時がやってきた。かつて赤ん坊の自分が売られた場所を訪ねた華泉は、自らの出生の秘密について聞かされ・・・。