Happy Birthday

Details

Title: Happy Birthday
Alternate Titles: Sun Yat Fai Lok
Genre: Romance
Audio: Cantonese
Subtitle: English
Country: Hong Kong
Release Date: January 16, 2007
Runtime: 107 minutes
Director: Jingle Ma

Cast

Louis Koo (Nam)
Rene Liu (Mi)
Bowie Tsang (Lam Wai)
Lawrence Chou (Danny)
Macy Chan (Teresa)
Yuya Kudo (Takashi)
Sonija Kwok (Yan)
Suet Lam (Medical Worker)
Qinqin Li (Nam's sister)
Carl Ng (Cheng)
Richard Ng (Mi's dad)
Richie Ren (Richie)
Shaun Tam (Lam Wai's husband)
Wei Wei (Mi's grandma)

Synopsis

Happy Birthday is based on Rene Liu’s latest short novel, I Want To Go With You, about a decade-long love story that persists through sending and receiving birthday cards. Rene says that the story is fictional and her career mentor Sylvia Chang edited the story for the screenplay. Happy Birthday will also mark Rene’s first collaboration with Hong Kong star Louis Koo. Hong Kong acclaimed director, Jingle Ma will be helming the production


Mi is a single woman in her late twenties who’s unattached despite the fact that she’s a talented pianist and looks just like Rene Liu. Mi seems content with loneliness, except on her birthday, when her expectation of a message from her ex-boyfriend Nam (Louis Koo) lifts her spirits. Nam is married now, but once upon a time the two looked like they would be longtime partners. The film details their tender first beginnings in flashback, when the ultra-popular Nam ditched many potential girlfriends for the sometimes difficult Mi, who doubted their relationship, doubted her attractiveness, and frequently poo-pooed the idea that Nam would really go for her long-term. Nam responded by being inscrutably charming, and the two eventually became boyfriend-girlfriend. Circumstance and bad timing lead them to separate and finally become best friends, though that eventuality is partially due to self-defeating design. But the attraction is clearly always there, and Nam seems like he’s going to stay strong and make Mi his one-and-only — that is, once she gets back from her schooling in Japan and he ditches his string of replacement girlfriends. But somewhere along the way, things went wrong and Nam got married. How, given his obvious ardent love for Mi, did that ever happen?

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