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My Mother is a Belly Dancer is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama with Lam Chi Chung
My Mother is a Belly Dancer (2006)
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Add to a movie listMy Mother Is a Belly Dancer (師奶唔易做, lit: "It's not easy to be a see lai") is a 2006 Hong Kong film directed by Lee Kung-Lok. It is part of Andy Lau's "Focus: First Cut" series, focusing on promising young directors from Asia. Andy Lau makes a cameo in the film.
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The film is a portrait of three "see lai", a colloquial term used in Hong Kong to describe wives, especially housewives, who are approaching or in their middle ages. Mrs. Chan (Amy Shum) is a housewife with a grown-up daughter who tends to be domineering of her husband. Mrs. Lee (Sydney Suet Lei), on the other hand, is meek, with a chauvinistic husband (Ken Tong) and a young son who is troubling her with his poor grades. Mrs. Wong (Crystal Tin) is a garbage lady who has to support a family of four daughters. Her doting tailor husband (Gordon Lam) is out of a job, and the family has to make ends meet nonetheless. Her life is thrown out of order when she is laid off her job.Actors
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