The Illegal Immigrant

The Illegal Immigrant
Traditional Chinese非法移民
Simplified Chinese非法移民
Hanyu PinyinFēi Fǎ Yí Mín
JyutpingFei1 Faat3 Ji4 Man4
Directed byMabel Cheung
Written byAlex Law
Produced byMona Fong
StarringChing Yung-cho
Cindy Ou
Liao Chung-yu
Peter Lee Kui-yuen
Production
company
Release date
  • 3 May 1985 (1985-05-03)
Running time
92 minutes[1]
CountryBritish Hong Kong
LanguageCantonese
BudgetHK$1,000,000
Box officeHK$4,723,687[2]

The Illegal Immigrant is a 1985 Hong Kong film directed by Mabel Cheung with the screenplay written by Alex Law. As Cheung's debut film, it tells about the story of a Chinese illegal immigrant in the United States seeking for his legal status through a sham marriage falls in love with his fake bride.

The film, along with An Autumn's Tale and Eight Taels of Gold, formed Cheung and Law's "Migration Trilogy".[3]

  1. ^ "The Illegal Immigrant". Hong Kong Film Archive. Archived from the original on 16 October 2019. Retrieved 5 July 2022.
  2. ^ "1985 香港票房". 中國電影票房榜. Archived from the original on 5 January 2020. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
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