23 Aug 2024
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Weeds on Fire
Inspired by the true story of Hong Kong’s first teenage baseball team. In the 1980s, two childhood friends join the Shatin Martins, a Band 3 school baseball team managed by the school principal. From these humble beginnings, the boys experience camaraderie, fall in love and make fateful decisions that resonate throughout their lives amid a changing Hong Kong and its sporting world.
Top Billed Cast
廖啟智 Principal Lo Kwong Fai
岑珈其 Chan Keung
林耀聲 Tse Chi-Lung
鬍子彤 Fan Chun-Wai
潘燦良 Mr Tsang
Suen Lik-Man Lung's father
談善言 Tsz Ching
林海峰 (voice)
黃定謙 Li Wang
Jie Shui Lung's mother
Will Or
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