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The Day of Days

2013 · 1 season

A period drama that mixes light comedy with scheming and family friction, moving at a steady, talky pace. The experience is engaging but not demanding, with a slightly uneven tone that shifts between playful and tense.

Created by
Leung Choi Yuen
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Raymond Wong Ho-yin, Sunny Chan Kam-Hung, Sonija Kwok Sin-Nae
Overview
In the early years of the Republic of China, gang leader SO FEI (Wong Ho Yin), to whom the brotherly loyalty will always prevail, runs a hard labour business which encounters financial difficulties. Misconstruing that simple and honest SUNG LAI-WO (Sunny Chan) is a close relative to the TONG's family - a noble clan of Xiguan, SO FEI deliberately flatters him in order to gain profits from the new dock run by LAI-WO. Unanticipatedly LAI-WO is merely an idler of the TONG's family, and the one at the helm is actually a pre-eminent businesswoman in Guangzhou and the eldest daughter of the TONG's family – TONG NGA-WUN (Sonija Kwok)...

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Created by
Leung Choi Yuen
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Raymond Wong Ho-yin, Sunny Chan Kam-Hung, Sonija Kwok Sin-Nae
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Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • power
    • family
    • betrayal
    • ambition
    • class
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • serialised
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action3
    Horror0
    Humour4
    Realism6
    Romance3
    Tension5
    Darkness4
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Genres
    comedy
    Created by
    Leung Choi Yuen
    Starring
    Raymond Wong Ho-yin, Sunny Chan Kam-Hung, Sonija Kwok Sin-Nae, Rosina Lin, Law Lok-lam, Mat Yeung Ming, Patrick Tang Kin-Wang, Cheung Kwok-keung
    Length
    1 seasons, 20 episodes
    Network
    TVB Jade
    Country
    Hong Kong
    Languages
    Cantonese

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