Backyard Adventures
1955 · 117 min
Drama
★ 10.0Reporter Yu Mong-yuen is recovering from a leg injury in his fiancee Man-wah's apartment. Bored, he looks out the rear window and observes the life of the neighbouring building. Among the tenants are a sugar-daddy and his mistress, a middle-aged man wants to marry a young girl, but she is in love with his son. Finally, she hatches a plot and makes the man agree to her marrying his son ; a sly fortune-teller ; a lively gym, a rich widow quarrels with the trainer of a gymnasium because his dog has bitten her cat ; and an opera school, a woman signs, leaning on the balcony, and a man tries to strangle her. In fact they are rehearsing an opera…… One evening, Wah is on the night shift, and Yuen watches the opera troupe rehearse to the end. Under the influence of drugs, Yu mistakenly believes that a divorced man has murdered a taxi dancer. He alerts the police, but the whole thing is nothing more than a misunderstanding.
Crew
- Director Chu Kei
- Director Ng Wui
- Director Chan Pei
- Screenplay Cheung Shun
- Screenplay Cheng Kang
- Director of Photography Ruan Zengsan
- Director of Photography Wong Ming
- Director of Photography Ngai Hoi-Fung
Cast
Crew
- Director — Chu Kei
- Director — Ng Wui
- Director — Chan Pei
- Screenplay — Cheung Shun
- Screenplay — Cheng Kang
- Director of Photography — Ruan Zengsan
- Director of Photography — Wong Ming
- Director of Photography — Ngai Hoi-Fung
External reads
No articles linked yet.
🔥 Hot takes
warming up the wall…
Metadata & streaming data: TMDB (JustWatch). This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.