AU REVOIR, MON AMOUR (1991) back to main
Directed by Tony Au Ting-Ping; starring Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Hidekazu Akai, Carrie Ng Ka-Lai, Kenneth Tsang Kong. 
AKA: TILL WE MEET AGAIN (DVD title). Plush, glorified soap opera, a prestige production celebra- ting Golden Harvest's "100 Films" anniversary. Directed by "auteur" Tony Au Ting-Ping (who also made the underrated Tony Leung/Rosamund Kwan thriller TOUCH OF EVIL), who imbues the frequently melodramatic proceedings with an epic touch and gets the most out of his distinguished performers, notably Carrie Ng as Mui's sultry setp- mother(!). The backdrop is 1930s occupied Shanghai, and as could be expected, the Japanese enemy is portrayed with broad strokes. Still, Hidekazu Akai appears rather sympathetic as Mui's mild-mannered second love interest (Gues who's the first!). Not great art - as possibly intended -, just stylish melodrama with a good sense of time and place.
 Anita Mui Yim-Fong plays a strong-minded nightclub singer torn between lovers and in desperate search for happiness. Sounds much like
the real-life Anita Mui!
Veteran character actor Kenneth Tsang (REPLACEMENT KILLERS, ONCE A THIEF, PEKING OPERA BLUES) plays Mui's father; the sultry, seductive
Carrie Ng (NAKED KILLER) her sultry, seductive step-mother.
Chinese resistance fighter Tony Leung Ka-Fai usually wipes the floor
with the Japanese enemy. He certainly does in this scene.
Some police officials are rather more willing to cooperate with the occupators.
Observe this actor's crafty look.
Shanghai under occupation is not an amusement park, but this is carrying things too far.
As the going gets tough, the not-so-tough fall for the enemy. Carrie Ng
engages in fraternization.
Whose Mui is it?
Hidekazu Akai and Tony Leung force
her to make a choice. Which choice would you make?