Made in Hong Kong is about three teenagers who live in a world without prospects for the future. Their lives are overshadowed by crumbling families and the economic, political and cultural threat from mainland China. Like beasts of prey let loose in the urban jungle, some youths degenerate into nihilist rebellion. Autumn Moon has left school, lives from odd jobs and is an extortionist for a Mafia boss. He falls in love with Ping, a girl who is suffering from an incurable disease. One day a young schoolgirl commits suicide. She leaves two letters, written in her own blood. Autumn Moon is obsessed by this and decides to go in search of the people the letters were addressed to. He dreams of getting enough money to cure his beloved Ping and steals money from his mother. When she finds out, she is close to despair. Then Moon decides that his runaway father is the cause of all their misery. And that has some nasty consequences…This independent low-budget big-city romance is characterised by a strikingly black yet humanistic view of young people. The young characters are almost all played by amateurs, recruited from the kind of criminal circuits that the film portrays.
