Moon is a small-time thug who dropped out of school ("I wasn't any good at studying, but the system's no better than I am") and lives in the pay of a local mobster. Doomed yet naively in search of a way out, he spends his pointless, violent life with Sylvester, his mentally retarded friend, and one day he falls in love with Ping, a girl with a terminal illness. And that's all it takes to trigger the perfect storm... Made in Hong Kong is an incredible film - a powerful distillation of urban alienation and youthful despair, shot on a shoestring and with a truly impressive freshness. Released shortly after the handover that returned Hong Kong to China in 1997, Fruit Chan's masterpiece communicates perfectly the artistic fervour and the social climate of the city. A time of new beginnings and opportunities for the cinema of the former British colony which, after the splendours of Bruce Lee, John Woo and Wong Kar-wai, was forced to seek rebirth. Poised between realism and narrative, between the rawness and the poetry of the cinema of the street, for twenty years Made in Hong Kong has been invisible and impossible to find, and is now given new life thanks to the restored version realised by the Far East Film Festival.

1997 Locarno International Film Festival - Swissair/Crossair Special Prize
1997 Busan International Film Festival - FIPRESCI Prize
1997 Vancouver International Film Festival
1998 Hong Kong Film Awards - Best Picture, Best Director, Best New Performer