# A Home with a View > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Home_with_a_View > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/A_Home_with_a_View.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Home_with_a_View > Source revision: 1345588554 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) 2019 Hong Kong film by Herman Yau A Home with a View Film poster Chinese name Traditional Chinese 家和萬事驚 Simplified Chinese 家和万事惊 Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Jiā Hé Wàn Shì Jīng Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Gaa1 Wo4 Maan6 Si6 Ging1 Directed by Herman Yau Screenplay by Cheung Tat-ming Based on Family Surprise by Cheung Tat-ming Produced by Cheung Tat-ming Stanley Tong Starring Francis Ng Louis Koo Anita Yuen Cheung Tat-ming Lam Suet Cinematography Joe Chan Mandy Ngai Edited by Azrael Chung Music by Mak Chun Hung Production companies Er Dong Pictures Sun Entertainment Culture Fei Fan Entertainment Production Sil-Metropole Organisation Er Dong Pictures (Hong Kong) Company Distributed by Bravos Pictures Release date 24 January 2019 (2019-01-24) Running time 92 minutes Country Hong Kong Language Cantonese ***A Home with a View*** is a 2019 Hong Kong [black comedy](/source/Black_comedy) film directed by [Herman Yau](/source/Herman_Yau) and starring [Francis Ng](/source/Francis_Ng), [Louis Koo](/source/Louis_Koo), [Anita Yuen](/source/Anita_Yuen) and [Cheung Tat-ming](/source/Cheung_Tat-ming), who also co-produced and wrote the screenplay. The film is an adaptation the play, *Family Surprise*, which was also written by Cheung.[1] ## Plot In order to preserve the value of his assets, Lo Wai-man ([Francis Ng](/source/Francis_Ng)) spent all of his savings and his father's retirements pensions to purchase an old-age flat in the middle of a noisy neighborhood, cohabiting with his neurotic wife, Suk-yin ([Anita Yuen](/source/Anita_Yuen)), unemployed son, Bun-hong (Ng Siu-hin), daughter, Yu-sze(Jocelyn Choi) who is going through puberty and his elderly, disabled father ([Cheung Tat-ming](/source/Cheung_Tat-ming)). With tight living quarters, noisy neighbors, and less than desirable living standards, the Lo family often find themselves at each other's necks over the smallest of inconveniences. Luckily, through a window in the living room lies a distant view of the beautiful ocean which prevents the household from going insane. However, one day, the ocean view disappears after a billboard is illegally built on a neighboring building. With their only sense of relief in the crowded city gone, the Lo family begin to quarrel nonstop. In order to regain the peace within the household, the Lo family does everything in their power to remove the billboard and its owner, Wong Siu-choi ([Louis Koo](/source/Louis_Koo)). ## Cast ### Main cast - [Francis Ng](/source/Francis_Ng) as Lo Wai-man - [Louis Koo](/source/Louis_Koo) as Wong Siu-choi - [Anita Yuen](/source/Anita_Yuen) as Suk-yin - [Cheung Tat-ming](/source/Cheung_Tat-ming) as Grandpa - [Lam Suet](/source/Lam_Suet) as Butcher ### Special appearance - [Anthony Wong](/source/Anthony_Wong) as Cheung - [Bowie Wu](/source/Bowie_Wu) as Superintendent - [Lo Hoi-pang](/source/Lo_Hoi-pang) as Chan Tai-hung - [Law Kar-ying](/source/Law_Kar-ying) as Landlord - [Lawrence Cheng](/source/Lawrence_Cheng) as District council representative - [Sam Lee](/source/Sam_Lee_(actor)) as Environment protection officer ### Other cast - [Elena Kong](/source/Elena_Kong) as Betrayed wife - [Evergreen Mak](/source/Evergreen_Mak_Cheung-ching) as Taxi driver - [Kingdom Yuen](/source/Kingdom_Yuen) as Guidance counselor - [Lam Chi-chung](/source/Lam_Chi-chung) as Mr. Lee - Anna Ng as Woman arguing in bus - [Wilfred Lau](/source/Wilfred_Lau) as Man walking with dog - [6-Wing](/source/6-Wing) as Mortgage company staff - C Kwan as Mortgage company staff - [Joyce Cheng](/source/Joyce_Cheng) as CID officer - Mak Ling-ling as House department officer - Harriet Yeung as Real estate agent - Tyson Chak as Advertising company staff - [Ng Siu-hin](/source/Ng_Siu-hin) as Lo Bun-hong - Jocelyn Choi as Lo Yu-sze - Siupo Chan as Woman fighting for fish - J. Arie as Nurse in mental hospital - Anderson Junior as Commerce, Industry & Tourism branch officer - [Angelina Lo](/source/Angelina_Lo) - Yu Chi-ming as Fish stall hawker - Strawberry Yeung as Real estate agent - Ricky Wong as Male property viewer - [Celine Ma](/source/Celine_Ma) as Female property viewer - [Gill Mohindepaul Singh](/source/Gill_Mohindepaul_Singh) as Indian - Bonnie Wong as Chan Tai-hung's wife - Gladys Liu as Tenant - Mandy Yiu as Female tenant - Dickson Yuen - Kong Ling-ling as Mrs. Chiu - [Renci Yeung](/source/Renci_Yeung) as Property viewer - [Kitty Yuen](/source/Kitty_Yuen) as Wong Siu-choi's nurse ## Production Filming for *A Home with a View* began on 11 December 2017 in [Kwun Tong](/source/Kwun_Tong), where a blessing ceremony was held and was attended by director [Herman Yau](/source/Herman_Yau) and cast members [Francis Ng](/source/Francis_Ng), [Louis Koo](/source/Louis_Koo), [Anita Yuen](/source/Anita_Yuen), [Cheung Tat-ming](/source/Cheung_Tat-ming), [Lawrence Cheng](/source/Lawrence_Cheng), [Elena Kong](/source/Elena_Kong) and [Evergreen Mak](/source/Evergreen_Mak_Cheung-ching). The film is an adaptation of the play, *Family Surprise*, written by Cheung, who also serves as the film's producer and screenwriter while also donning elderly makeup to portray the role of Ng's father. Cheung revealed that he originally had no interest in playing the role and it was originally a female character in the play, but was persuaded by Ng to do so.[2][3][1][4] Production for the film wrapped up in February 2018.[5] ## Release On 19 March 2018, the film promoted at the 2018 Hong Kong Filmart, where its first poster and trailer was unveiled.[6][7] There, it was also announced the film is slated to be released in the summer of 2018.[8] But it was then delayed and subsequently released in Hong Kong on 24 January 2019.[9][10] ## References 1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-family_1-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-family_1-1) ["靚靚新片再拍鎮宇舐舐脷 古仔演技 嚇窒張達明"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200329133625/https://hk.entertainment.appledaily.com/entertainment/daily/article/20171212/20241623). 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Retrieved 15 May 2019. ## External links - [*A Home with a View*](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8443432/) at [IMDb](/source/IMDb_(identifier)) v t e Films directed by Herman Yau Leng mooi jing juen (1987) Don't Fool Me (1991) Best of the Best (1992) No More Love, No More Death (1993) The Untold Story (1993) Taxi Hunter (1993) Don't Shoot Me, I'm Just A Violinist! 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