Her music is featured prominently throughout the film, and Teresa Teng herself is an important subplot for the movie. The movie displays love of the famous singer who died a year before the film was released the film is considered a love poem in memory of Teresa Teng. The Chinese title of the film, 'Tian Mi Mi', comes from a song of the same name by Teresa Teng, which is famous both in mainland China and among the overseas Chinese community. It is revealed that the two had sat back to back on their first train ride to Hong Kong. The film ends with Xiao-Jun and Li Qiao fatefully meeting each other in front of an electronic store that has a display television playing a music video by Teresa Teng, after news of the singer's death had broken. By then, both of them have already been freed from their previous partners - Xiao-Jun left his wife, and Pao is killed in a mugging in the U.S. After almost 10 years, Xiao-Jun and Li Qiao meet again as lonely immigrants in the U.S. Pao, chased by the Hong Kong police, escapes with Li Qiao to the U.S. He then leaves Hong Kong, and becomes a cook in the United States. Despite their seemingly separate lives, however, they are still in love and they have one final tryst in the room they used to share before they are separated again.īurdened by guilt and his love for Li Qiao, Xiao-Jun confesses to his wife that he has not been faithful. Li Qiao also becomes a successful entrepreneur, achieving her Hong Kong dream. Eventually, Li Xiao-Jun marries his fiancée, Fang Xiaoting (方小婷) (Yang) in Hong Kong and Li Qiao winds up in a relationship with a mob boss named Ouyang Pao (T: 歐陽豹, S: 欧阳豹, P: Ōuyáng Bào) (Tsang). But their different ambitions (Li Xiao-Jun wants to bring his fiancé to Hong Kong Li Qiao wants to get rich) mean that they are unable to be together. The loneliness of living in the big city inevitably brings the two into a passionate love affair. Leon Lai plays a naive Northerner, Li Xiao-Jun (T: 黎小軍, S: 黎小军), and Maggie Cheung plays an opportunist/entrepreneur and Cantonese speaker from Guangzhou, Li Qiao (T: 李 翹, S: 李 翘), who takes advantage of mainlanders like herself for financial gains. The film, spanning years, centres on two Chinese mainlanders who migrate to Hong Kong to make a living, but end up falling in love.
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