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First Love and Other Pains

Country: Hong Kong, Language: English | Cantonese, 50 mins

Original Title

Sam Fooi
  • Director: Simon Chung
  • Writer: Simon Chung
  • Producer: Chui Hing Chan

CGiii Comment

A young Chinese student falls for his lecturer who is teaching [surprise,surprise] Foster's Maurice - with that kind of premise you just know it's going to end in tears!

The soundtrack was probably written and played...by a toddler...on some kind of toy keyboard - it just adds to how intensely annoying and inept this hogswash actually is.

Just awful.


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The(ir) Blurb...

In Hong Kong, a university student discovers his attraction to his English Literature professor, an expat British playwright who realizes that he's at a crossroads in his own life.

Cast & Characters

Edmund Strode as Hugh;
Alex Wong as Mark;
Carrie Leung as Christine;
Kin Wai Young as Auntie;
Colette Koo as Dean;
Wes Wong as Kevin;
Oliver Williams as Jamie;
Jeremy as Student 1 / Boy Toy;
Ivy Sze as Student 2;
Kathine as Student 3;
Chui Hing Chan as Student 4;
June Ng as Student 6