Summer Snow
Released: 1995
Comedy, Drama
The Suns are a typical Hong Kong family: May, forty something, works for a trading company; her husband, Bing, works as a low-grade civil servant, and Allen, their teenage son, is still at school. Trouble strikes one day when Bing's mother dies of a stroke, leaving her husband old Mr. Sun. Alzheimer's Disease is diagnosed. From that day on, the family's daily life is thrown into a poignant. Old Mr. Sun develops a tendency to wander off and get lost, he wakes up yelling in the middle of the night plus he is rude and disobliging ... all this, along with May's already full schedule as wife, mother and employee, drives her close to the edge of her endurance. The very last thing they all wanted has to happen: old Mr. Sun has to go into a Nursing Home. But it does not turn out quite like they expected...
Starring: Josephine Siao Fong-Fong, Roy Chiao, Law Kar-Ying, Tam Sin-Hung, May Law Koon-Lan, Patricia Chong Jing-Yee, Allen Ting, Teresa Ha Ping
Directed by: Ann Hui
Written by: Man Keung Chan, Lo Kwok-Jim
Language: Cantonese
Scenes
The old man with Alzheimer's disease mistakes the family's household shrine for a urinal, peeing on it in the middle of the night.
Alternate Titles
Woman, Forty
女人四十
Nu ren si shi