Voyage () is a 2013 film by the acclaimed Hong Kong filmmaker Scud, the production-crediting name of Danny Cheng Wan-Cheung. It is described as "a tragic story about love, fate and the struggle of losing loved ones",Scud makes Voyage to Europe. Author: Martin Blaney. Publisher: Screen Daily. Published: 20 April 2012. Retrieved: 17 March 2014. and received its world premiere on 20 October 2013 at the Chicago International Film Festival.The Chicago International Film Festival - Voyage Publisher: Chicago International Film Festival. Retrieved: 17 March 2014. Voyage was filmed in Hong Kong, Mongolia, Malaysia, Australia, Germany and the Netherlands, and is the director's first film partially made outside Asia, and also his first to be filmed mostly in the English language. It explores several themes traditionally regarded as "taboo" in Hong Kong society in an unusually open, convention-defying way, and features full-frontal male nudity in several scenes.Voyage (2013) www.imdb.com Retrieved: 17 March 2014.
Voyage is the fifth of eleven publicly released films by Scud. The other films include: City Without Baseball (2008), Permanent Residence (2009), Amphetamine (2010), Love Actually... Sucks! (2011), Utopians (2015) and Thirty Years of Adonis (2017). His eighth film, Apostles, was made in 2022, as was the ninth, Bodyshop. Scud's tenth and eleventh films (his final projects prior to retirement), Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe and Ghosts Just Wanna Have Fun, were produced in 2024.
Plot Voyage centers on a young psychiatrist (played by Ryo van Kooten) who leaves Hong Kong to embark on a long lone voyage from Hong Kong along the coast of South-East Asia to try to overcome the emotional turmoil he has experienced in his relationships with former clients. While traveling, he tries to come to terms with his experiences by making a detailed record of their stories, and decides to visit those places himself.
The film's director, Scud, explained that the idea for the film "originated from my own thoughts about suicide. One time, I had thought about walking into the central Australian desert until I am exhausted and die in a miserable way. These thoughts caused me to think about similar people in this situation." He continued that "All of the episodes are independent of each other and the stories are based on real experiences which some of the actors appearing in the film have gone through. Having an international cast and locations around the world is appropriate because depression and suicide are universal themes".
Main cast Ryo van Kooten ... Ryo Sebastian Castro ... Sebastian Adrian Ron Heung ... Adrian Leon Hill ... Ryo's Father Haze Leung ... Ming Byron Pang ... Yuan Jason Poon ... Jip Debra Baker ... Suzanna Schwaering Siu Yam-yam ... Lady Red Linda So ... Linda So Leni Speidel ... Leni
Production
Filming of Voyage began in September 2011 in the city of Hanover in Germany, and was Scud's first film set outside Asia. It stars the Peruvian-Japanese American actor, singer and visual artist Sebastian Castro, very popular in Asia, who was also commissioned to produce some original art for the film.
Voyage features many of Scud's colleagues from previous films, such as the actors Byron Pang, Haze Leung, Adrian "Ron" Heung, and Linda So, as well as several technical staff, such as director of photography Charlie Lam, who worked on Scud's 2010 film Amphetamine. During filming, Scud said, "I am really enjoying shooting in Europe because people are so film-friendly.. I can see myself coming back to film again in Europe". The German episode includes appearances by the UK actress Debra Baker (Junkhearts) and the German actress Leni Speidel, who was also the production manager for filming in Europe.
Home media A two-disc Sky Digi Entertainment (Taiwan) edition of Voyage was released internationally on DVD on 29 September 2014.
Films by the same director Name of film Year released City Without Baseball 2008 Permanent Residence 2009 Amphetamine 2010 Love Actually... Sucks! 2011 Utopians 2015 Thirty Years of Adonis 2017 Apostles 2022 Bodyshop 2023 Naked Nations: Hong Kong Tribe 2024 Ghosts Just Wanna Have Fun 2024
See also List of Hong Kong films of 2013 List of lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender-related films List of lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender-related films by storyline Nudity in film (East Asian cinema since 1929)
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