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All About Ah-Long is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Johnnie To with Chow Yun-fat
All About Ah-Long (1989)
阿郎的故事
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Add to a movie listAll About Ah-Long (Chinese: 阿郎的故事, Taiwan title:又見阿郎) is a 1989 Hong Kong drama film directed by Johnnie To and starring Chow Yun-fat and Sylvia Chang, whom also serve as the film's storywriters.
Synopsis
Chow Yun-fat plays Ah-Long, a single father trying to raise his son, Porky (Wong Kwan-yuen), on a low-income lifestyle. Ah-Long works as a truckdriver at a construction site. The son's real mother, Por-por, who is Ah-Long's ex-girlfriend (played by Sylvia Chang) left him ten years ago for the United States after a lovers' spat.Actors
Chow Yun-fat
(Ah Long)
Ng Man-tat
(Dragon)
Sylvia Chang
(Sylvia Poon / Por-Por)
Wong Tin-Lam
(Advertising Executive)
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