''Far Far Away'' ( zh, 緣路山旮旯) is a 2021

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romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...

film and the third full-length feature written and directed by Amos Why. The film follows a 28-year-old introverted IT geek who is inexperienced in dating, but suddenly finds himself romantically involved with five attractive women at different times, all are living in

New Territories The New Territories is one of the three main regions of Hong Kong, alongside Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula. It makes up 86.2% of Hong Kong's territory, and contains around half of the population of Hong Kong. Historically, it ...

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. It premiered as the closing film of the 2021 Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, and screened at the Osaka Asian Film Festival, New York Asian Film Festival, as well as the Far East Film Festival in

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. It was theatrically released in Hong Kong on 4 August 2022.

Cast

* Kaki Sham as Hau * Cecilia So as A. Lee, living in Sha Tau Kok * Rachel Leung as Mena Man, living in

Tai O Tai O is a fishing town, partly located on an island of the same name, on the western side of Lantau Island in Hong Kong. The village name means ''large inlet'', referring to outlet for the waterways (Tai O Creek and Tai O River) merges as it ...

* Hanna Chan as Lisa, living in

Lai Chi Wo Lai Chi Wo is a Hakka village near Sha Tau Kok, in the northeastern New Territories of Hong Kong. It is described as a "walled village" by some sources. Lai Chi Wo is located within Plover Cove Country Park and near Yan Chau Tong Marine Park. ...

* Jennifer Yu as Melanie, living in Sea Ranch,

Lantau Island Lantau Island (also Lantao Island, Lan Tao) is the largest island in Hong Kong, located West of Hong Kong Island and the Kowloon Peninsula, and is part of the New Territories. Administratively, most of Lantau Island is part of the Islands ...

Crystal Cheung A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macrosc ...

as Fleur, living in

Pak Nai Pak Nai () is a wetland area, partly mud-bank, surrounded by mountain ranges, in the Yuen Long District of Hong Kong facing Deep Bay (aka. Shenzhen Bay). Pak Nai makes up the coastline as Sheung Pak Nai () and Ha Pak Nai () geographically. Pak N ...

, Lau Fau Shan * Will Or as Tai-tung * Yatho Wong as Jude Law * Ning Chan as Gigi * Peter Chan as Manager * Adam Wong as Colleague Chris * Manson Cheung as Mena's boyfriend

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * 2021 films 2021 romantic comedy films Hong Kong romantic comedy films 2020s Cantonese-language films {{HongKong-film-stub