Bayview Entertainment Sets Aug. 28 For The Domestic DVD Debut Of Director Ann Hui's Our Time Will Come

Bayview Entertainment has opened the way for director Ann Hui’s award-winning World War II resistance film, Our Time Will Come, to finally be available in the domestic marketplace on DVD.   The Street date is Aug. 28.

Our Time Will Come, the story of the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong in 1941, opened at the Shanghai International Film Festival in June of 2017, where it was nominated for Best Feature Film, and then proceeded to rollout to cinemas in mainland China (to good results and solid reviews).

And then, boldly, the film was entered in competition at the Taipei Film Festival in Taiwan (a no-no in Chinese Communist Party circles … Taiwan doesn’t officially exist in their eyes) and simultaneously released in the United States in selected markets.

For the record, the ARR is a long-in-the-tooth 1,145 days … arthouse ticket sales came in at $114,560.

Now that should have been the end of it.  But no, director Ann Hui’s film was reintroduced to the film festival circuit after a four month hiatus and was in competition at the London Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, back to the United States for the San Diego Asian Film Festival … and on, and on for a solid year, finally wrapping up at the Zurich Film Festival in September of 2018.

And then Our Time Will Come dropped out of sight.   So, when news arrived this week that Bayview Entertainment had captured the domestic home entertainment distribution rights, that was welcome news indeed.

The Japanese have seized the British Crown Colony of Hong Kong (shortly after Pearl Harbor in late December of 1941).  It is a strange, international city, with spies and revolutionaries and secretive guerilla forces.   Who can you trust?

A simple school teacher by the name Fong Lan (Xun Zhou — The Equation of Love and Death, Red Sorghum, The Message, etc.) suddenly finds herself unemployed when the Japanese shut down her school.  Through a series of events she finds herself recruited by Blackie Lau (Eddie Peng — The Great Wall, Call of Heroes, To the Fore), a sure-shot assassin and one of the leaders of the “Urban and Firearms” resistance units.  

Fong Lan is romanced by Lee Gam-Wing (Wallace Huo — Suddenly Seventeen, Hide and Seek), but his motives might be sinister … it is a dangerous place, where being in the wrong place can mean sudden death.

Our Time Will Come is part World War II action flick and part spy thriller … and swiftly paced with excellent product values.   It is presented with a mix of Cantonese, Mandarin and Japanese with English subtitles.

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