[2023.04.02] PAT HA IS GRATEFUL FOR LESLIE CHEUNG'S ADVICE

Pat Ha and Cecilia Yip are happy about NOMAD's re-release
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Cecilia Yip cherishes life more because of Leslie Cheung
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Pat Ha Man Jik and Cecilia Yip Tung's first film NOMAD (LIT FOR CHING CHUN) worked with Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing. Two nights ago Ha Man Jik and her niece Irina Tang Yee Ting attended the film's 4K restored director's cut premiere. Founded a media company in Guangzhou, Ha Man Jik said that she hoped to make a movie with her niece Tang Yee Ting. She praised her niece for being in better shape than she was. With both looks and character, her niece would be able to be in a movie that would be as forward as NOMAD. She joked that first and foremost her niece would not take any money. She said that she was very happy about her first film from 40 years ago would be re-released, but she has never thought about it as it felt like a dream. In addition many of Gor Gor's memories flooded back into her heart. Because when she made the movie she was still a newcomer who knew nothing at all, "Gor Gor helped me a lot, reminding and teaching me in many places." She was able to improve very fast and has always missed Gor Gor. Thus when the event invited her, she returned to Hong Kong without a second thought.

Yip Tung said that the re-release of this film after over 40 years gave her a very wonderful feeling because she got into show business with this film, which also became her primary profession. She recalled that because the film was too forward at the time, it was banned for several months. Yip Tung said that back then film still did not have a three category rating system. Although at the time NOMAD did not perform well at the box office but because of its daring and forward subject, every year since then film festivals would select it for screening. At the time she went from modeling to take her first step into film, she did not understand what acting was. She only learned to follow the director's request and act. She also had no baggage. Only after the film was released and she got attention did she learn to be afraid. Speaking of 20 years since Gor Gor's passing, Yip Tung lamented that time went by very fast. A lot have happened over these years. She also attended many Gor Gor related memorial events this week. "Gor Gor was very famous, very popular, because of a lot of problems he left us; which made me realize that I should cherish and actively face my own life even more."