At the End of Daybreak

At End of Daybreak (Shah Mo) (心魔) is a Hong Kong movie. It was released November 5, 2009. It was directed and written by YuHang Ho.^[1][2] It runs 94 minutes.^[3]

Plot

Tuck (Tsui Tin-Yau) is 23 year-old Malaysian from a lower-class family, who lives with his divorced mother (Kara Hui) and generally lays about doing nothing. He dates Ying (Ng Meng-Hui), a fifteen-year-old schoolgirl whose quiet defiance defines her character.^[4][5]

Cast

• Kara Hui
• Tien You Chui
• Yasmin Ahmad
• Azman Hassan
• Hassan Muthalib
• Meng Hui Ng

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Box office

HKD 48,000 (Hong Kong) ( 2009) MYR 30,000 (Malaysia) ( 2010)

Awards

• 46th Golden Horse Awards - Kara Hui - Best supporting actress
• 16th Hong Kong Film Critics Society Awards - Kara Hui - Best actress
• 4th Asian Film Awards - Kara Hui - Best actress
• Best Newcomer - Jane Ng Meng Hui
• 29th Hong Kong Film Awards - Kara Hui - Best actress
• 10th Chinese Film Media Awards - Kara Hui - Best actress
• 10th Changchun Film Festival- Kara Hui - Best actress
• Vladivostok International Film Festival - Kara Hui - Best actress
• 2009 Locarno International Film Festival - Asian Film Award^[6]

Festival

• 2009 (62nd) Locarno International Film Festival - August 5–15 - International Competition^[7]
• 2009 (34th) Toronto International Film Festival - September 10–19 - Contemporary World Cinema^[8]
• 2009 (28th) Vancouver International Film Festival - October 1–16 - Dragons and Tigers
• 2009 (14th) Pusan International Film Festival - October 8–16 - A Window on Asian Cinema
• 2009 (6th) Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - October 15–30 - Closing Film^[9]
• 2009 (22nd) Tokyo International Film Festival - October 17–25 - Winds of Asia - Middle East
• 2010 (39th) International Film Festival Rotterdam - January 27-Feb. 7th
• 2010 (9th) Asian Film Festival of Dallas - July 23–29, 2010 *Southwest Premiere

References

External links

• http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1483799/
• http://www.haf.org.hk/haf/pdf/project07/project2.pdf