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FUJIAN BLUE

By Robin WENG

SPIER FILMS (LONDON) - as PROD

Drama - Completed 2008

- Year of production
- 2008
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- CHINA
- Languages
- MANDARIN
- Duration
- 91 mn
- Director(s)
- Robin WENG
- Writer(s)
- Chen TAO, Lin YILE, Robin WENG
- Cast
- Luo JIN, Zhu XIAOPENG, Zhuang JIAN JIE
- Producer(s)
- Kondo TEIKO, Lin FAN, Weng XIUPING
- Synopsis
- In the wake of China's open-door policy in the early 1980's, Fujian was one of the first Chinese coastal provinces to be opened to the outside world. Many of the male residents opted to go abroad for work, leaving behind their wives and families. Two decades later, Fujian is a microcosm of Chinese modernity: there are palatial suburbs populated by lonely “remittance widows”; neon-lit discotheques frequented by karaoke kids; coastal villages inhabited by impoverished fishermen and city centers dominated by gangs, snakeheads and language schools acting as fronts for organized human trafficking.
  The Neon Knights—Amerika, Roppongi and their friends, so nicknamed because of the places their emigrė fathers live—use their imported digital video-cameras to film wealthy remittance widows in trysts with their local lovers. They then proceed to blackmail the women, and use the proceeds to finance a night-life of drink, drugs, girls and karaoke. Amerika is the mastermind of the scheme, Roppongi (a.k.a. "The Playa") is the seducer and Dragon and the others act as bag-men. But when Amerika discovers that his own mother has taken a lover and decides to blackmail her, the gang is forced to take a stand...