Voyage (2013 film)

Voyage
Poster
Directed byScud
Written byScud
Produced byAnnie Lau
Leni Speidel
StarringRyo van Kooten
Sebastian Castro
Adrian Ron Heung
Leon Hill
Haze Leung
Byron Pang Koon Kei
Jason Poon
Debra Baker
Susan Siu
Linda So
Leni Speidel
CinematographyCharlie Lam
Edited byAndrew Chan
Matthew Hui
Production
company
ArtWalker Productions
Distributed byGolden Scene
Release dates
  • 20 October 2013 (2013-10-20) (CIFF)
  • 20 December 2013 (2013-12-20) (Taiwan)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryHong Kong
LanguagesEnglish and Cantonese

Voyage (Chinese: ) is a 2013 film by the acclaimed Hong Kong film-maker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is described as "a tragic story about love, fate and the struggle of losing loved ones",[1] and received its world premiere on 20 October 2013 at the Chicago International Film Festival.[2] It was filmed in Hong Kong, Mongolia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands, and is the director's first film partially made outside Asia, and also his first to be filmed mostly in the English language.[1] It explores several themes traditionally regarded as 'taboo' in Hong Kong society in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes.[3] It is the fifth of seven publicly released films by Scud. The six other films are: City Without Baseball in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010, Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011, Utopians in 2015 and Thirty Years of Adonis in 2017. The eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was the ninth, Bodyshop, but neither have yet been released.[4] The tenth and final film, Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe, is currently in production.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b Scud makes Voyage to Europe. Author: Martin Blaney. Publisher: Screen Daily. Published: 20 April 2012. Retrieved: 17 March 2014.
  2. ^ The Chicago International Film Festival - Voyage Publisher: Chicago International Film Festival. Retrieved: 17 March 2014.
  3. ^ Voyage (2013) www.imdb.com Retrieved: 17 March 2014.
  4. ^ a b Lo Hoi-ying (20 September 2022). "'We need to be hopeful': Hong Kong queer director Scud, renowned for his sexually explicit art-house movies, on leaving filmmaking". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  5. ^ Gareth Johnson (11 January 2018). "Scud: "I'm reluctant to call Hong Kong home"". Archived from the original on 22 May 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2022.