Voyage (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Scud |
| Produced by | Annie Lau Leni Speidel |
| Written by | Scud |
| Starring | Ryo 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 |
| Cinematography | Charlie Lam |
| Edited by | Andrew Chan Matthew Hui |
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ArtWalker Productions
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| Distributed by | Golden Scene |
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100 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | English and Cantonese |
Voyage (Chinese: 遊), 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", and received its world premiere on 20 October 2013 at the Chicago International Film Festival. It was filmed in Hong Kong, Mongolia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany and Holland, and is the director's first film partially made outside Asia, and also his first to be filmed mostly in the English language. 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. It is the fifth of Scud's five publicly-released films. The four earlier films by Scud are: City Without Baseball, released in 2008, Permanent Residence in 2009, Amphetamine in 2010 and Love Actually... Sucks! in 2011. His sixth film, Utopians, has now been completed and awaits release, whilst his seventh, Naked Nation, is currently in production.
Voyage centres on a young psychiatrist (played by Ryo van Kooten) who leaves Hong Kong to embark on a long lone voyage from Hong Kong along the coast of South-East Asia to try to overcome the emotional turmoil he has experienced in his relationships with former clients. While travelling, he tries to come to terms with his experiences by making a detailed record of their stories, and decides to visit those places himself.
The film's director, Scud, explained that the idea for the film "originated from my own thoughts about suicide. One time, I had thought about walking into the central Australian desert until I am exhausted and die in a miserable way. These thoughts caused me to think about similar people in this situation." He continued that "All of the episodes are independent of each other and the stories are based on real experiences which some of the actors appearing in the film have gone through. Having an international cast and locations around the world is appropriate because depression and suicide are universal themes".
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