---
title: 'Ordinary Heroes (1999)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ann Hui'
released: '1999-02-20'
runtime_minutes: 128
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Hong Kong'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/ordinary-heroes-1999'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0189954/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Ordinary Heroes (1999)

1999 · 128 min · Drama · Hong Kong

Original title: 千言萬語

## Synopsis

Ordinary Heroes is a 1999 Hong Kong drama film directed and produced by Ann Hui. Based on real-life prototypes, the film focused on social activists in the 1970s and 1980s who fought defiantly against the British Colonial government for the rights of the Yau Ma Tei boat people and their mainland wives. Mostly leftists and Communist sympathisers, their despair after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre is also highlighted.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ann Hui](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-hui)
- **Producer:** [Ann Hui](https://cinepixo.com/people/ann-hui)
- **Screenplay:** [John Chan Kin-Chung](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-chan-kin-chung)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Chiu Tsang Hei](https://cinepixo.com/people/chiu-tsang-hei), [Clarence Hui](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-hui)
- **Director of Photography:** [Yu Lik-wai](https://cinepixo.com/people/yu-lik-wai)
- **Editor:** [Kwong Chi-Leung](https://cinepixo.com/people/kwong-chi-leung)

## Cast

- [Anthony Wong](https://cinepixo.com/people/anthony-wong)
- [Paw Hee-ching](https://cinepixo.com/people/paw-hee-ching)
- [Rachel Lee](https://cinepixo.com/people/rachel-lee)
- [Tse Kwan-ho](https://cinepixo.com/people/tse-kwan-ho)
- [Lee Kang-sheng](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-kang-sheng)

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Film facts: Wikidata (Q2131292); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.