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Slow Boat Home (2013)

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Genre: drama, romance
Country: Hong Kong
Release year: 2013
Status: Completed
 
Born and raised in Cheung Chau, CHEUNG BO SAN's (Raymond Wong) nature of being too ambitious but having little talent, drove his father CHEUNG SING MUI's (Elliot Ngok) seafood restaurant business to bankruptcy. BO SAN felt disheartened and depressed, but fortunately he had a female director CHENG PO PO (Aimee Chan) by his side supporting him. When BO SAN crashed his boat and broke his leg, PO PO was willing to push him around in his wheel chair. Meanwhile, KWOK HEI MAN (Selena Li) suddenly gives up on her career and goes back to Cheung Chau to help her mother YIP WING SAN (Susan Tse) manage their resort business. It turns out, HEI MAN secretly worked on a project to develop a hotel kingdom with another person and intentionally started a relationship with BO SAN to upset PO PO. HEI MAN's motives were all seen by her first love CHING LAI WING (Ruco Chan). WING could not accept her wrongdoings at all, so now he and PO PO were in the same boat. When PO PO was prepared to give up searching for her true identity and go back to the U.S, the resort business suddenly gets bought out and causes a turning point...(credit aZnangel@http://asianuniverse.net/) 
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