Ping Pomg
                                                                                                                    
Director: Leung Po-chi
Year: 1986
Rating: 6.0
After directing ten films in Hong Kong, Leung Po-chi returned to home ground to direct this film that explores the immigrant experience in London. Leung was born in England to parents who had immigrated from Taishan, Guangdong and had opened a restaurant in London. This was territory he knew well and in this meandering shaggy dog tale, he touches on many aspects of it. It is a slow build, but by the end it has an emotional impact.



Sam Wong dies in a phone booth and he had assigned the execution of his Will to a young English-Chinese woman who is still in law school and who doesn't speak Chinese. In a large Chinese family nothing is simple. Elaine Choi (Lucy Sheen) gathers the family together - the widow, two sons, a daughter and a few friends - to read the eccentric Will. He owned various properties and a restaurant. Elaine has to get them all to sign off, but the oddball stipulations in the Will and family discord makes that request nearly impossible. As she bounces back and forth between family members, between tradition and modern, between immigrant and British born, she tries to bring them together, heal the rifts and discovers her own Chinese identity by doing so. With its cast of unknowns,  it vanished at the box office in the blink of an eye but was released again in 2024.