The Home Song Stories
Director: Tony Ayres
Genre: Drama
Year: 2007
Country: Australia
Language: Cantonese, English Language, Standard Mandarin, Standard Cantonese
Starring: Joan Chen, Qi Yuwu, Irene Chen
The Home Song Stories is an Australian film released in 2007. Written and directed by acclaimed Tony Ayres of Walking on Water (2002), The Home Song Stories stars Joan Chen, Joel Lok, Qi Yu Wu, Irene Chen, Steven Vidler and Kerry Walker.
The film was announced as the Australian entry for the Foreign Language Film category of the Oscars. It received a total of nine nominations at the 2007 Inside Film Awards, which were held on 16 November at Crowne Plaza Royal Pines Resort, Gold Coast.
The film is an autobiographical account of Tony Ayres' life at age eight, however the names have been changed. The story is narrated by an adult Tom typing the story on a computer and reflecting on the story "which defines them, which shapes who they are." His mother Rose (Joan Chen) was a nightclub singer in Hong Kong in 1964, where she met Bill, an Australian sailor, and married him to seek a better life in Australia, taking her daughter May (Irene Chen) and son Tom (Joel Lok). An opening montage of scenes shows Rose making several unsuccessful attempts as establishing herself with Chinese partners before moving in with Bill again.
The story begins seven years after their initial migration into
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