The movie “Hong Kong Rescue” recounts the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. Hong Kong was occupied by the Japanese army and expelled millions of Hong Kong refugees. At the …

A young woman Mianhua (“Cotton”) gets a job which she has never done before: to be a full-time caretaker of an old stubborn boxer who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. The old man’s son with his later wife lives overseas and almost takes no care of him, and his daughter with his ex-wife hires Mianhua to take care of him – but the daughter distrusts and despises all nannies for “knows only lying, abusing, and taking advantages”. Under the same roof, however, the old man and Mianhua start to get along with each other well over time, and he starts to mistake Mianhua as his ex-wife whom he owed a love debt to. All of a sudden, Mianhua finds out that she got pregnant…

”A grand drama about love and self-sacrifice in the shadow of politically conservative China, on a search for its new identity after the Mao regime.” (From the 2007 Stockholm Film Festival catalogue.)