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Boat People

Boat People (1983) - Where to Watch

Audience Score
76

Ready to watch 'Boat People' on any device? Here’s where you can watch it, including ways to watch including rental, purchase, and subscription options, so you can pick what works best for you. 'Boat People' is currently available to rent, purchase, or stream via subscription on Criterion Channel in the US.

Here are a few more things worth knowing about the Bluebird Movie Enterprises drama flick. Boat People starring George Lam Tsz-Cheung, Season Ma, Cora Miao, Andy Lau has a R rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 49 min. The release date of the movie is November 13th, 1983. The movie received a user score of 76/100 on TMDb, which was calculated from reviews from 55 verified users.

Need a quick rundown of the movie? Here's the plot: "A Japanese photojournalist revisits Vietnam after the liberation to document the nation, and begins following and documenting the young children from a poor Vietnamese family."

'Boat People' Release Dates

Watch in Movie Theaters on November 13th, 1983

Vietnam Trilogy Movies

Long before Hong Kong declared itself the ‘first port of asylum’ for Vietnamese refugees in 1979, tens of thousands of Vietnamese had already been flocking to the city by cargo ships in the four years prior. Ann Hui made her first creative endeavour to chronicle this chapter of Hong Kong’s history with acute insights in the TV drama Below the Lion Rock: The Boy from Vietnam. Subsequently, as Vietnamese migrants became an increasingly contentious issue in Hong Kong, Hui directed two more films on the same topic, The Story of Woo Viet and Boat People. Collectively, these three works became known as the Vietnam Trilogy, marking the stellar rise of Hui’s filming career.