Long synopsis : Fan is a beautiful girl from rural mainland China. Her visa has expired and she lives as a fugitive, her days spent in a Mong Kok alley scrubbing dishes. Fan is a silent observer, cut off from the wealth of the city around her. Yan is in Hong Kong for the same reason as Fan - money. She too lives in the seedy underworld of Mong Kok, where neon signs light the hectic streets, advertising sex. A world of cheap tricks and greedy pimps. As long as her visa lasts, Yan is a prostitute. Their paths cross when they witness an attack in the street. The weapon is a large, spiky fruit. A durian. Yan returns home ill at ease, estranged from her lover and her past; an outsider in Northern China's snowy desolation. Hong Kong lingers as a dangerous temptation, an awful dream. Then she receives a gift from Fan - a strange tropical fruit. The durian, that evil-smelling, sweet-tasting delicacy, links Fruit Chan's dispossessed characters: damaged children looking for the courage to hope in a hostile world...

Cast

• Hailu Qin, Wai-Fan Mak, Xiao Ming Biao, Wai Yiu Yung, Kwok-Ping Cheung, Fanny Fen-ni

Crew

• Producer(s): Carrie Wong
• Director(s): Fruit Chan
• Screenplay: Fruit Chan, Wai-Keung Chan, Zhi Min Sheng
• DP: Wah-Chuen Lam
• Editing: Fruit Chan
• Original Music: Hing-Cheung Chu, Wah-Chuen Lam
• Set Design: Fruit Chan

• Original Title: LIULIAN PIAO PIAO
• Genre(s): Drama


• Production company: BATRAX ENTERTAINMENT, GOLDEN NETWORK, STUDIOCANAL
• Production date: 2000
• Language: Chinese
• Duration: 116 min
• Image Ratio: 1.85
• Sound Info: Dolby SR

• Toronto International Film Festival 2000
  
• Venice Film Festival 2000 - Competition
  
• Melbourne International Film Festival 2005
  
• BFI London Film Festival 2000
  
• Busan International Film Festival 2000
  
• International Film Festival Rotterdam 2001
  
• New York Film Festival 2001
  
• Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival 2001
  Award(s) : Best Film, Best Actress, Best New Performer, Best Screenplay Originally Written for the Screen