Time Before Time (1997)

Cast

Gordon Lam, Kathy Chow, Florence Kwok, Kenneth Chan, Carol Yeung, Sum Wai, Johnny Tang, Gan Pui Wan

Genre

drama television series

Country

Hong Kong

Length

20 episodes

How it feels

A man and a woman are connected by fate and love across the boundary between the living and the dead. The story is set in Hong Kong in 1997 and involves traditional Chinese beliefs about the spirit world.

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What happens

Time Before Time (Chinese title: 大鬧廣昌隆) was the most successful TVB series released in Hong Kong in 1997, the year that Hong Kong was transferred back to China. The series stars Gordon Lam and Kathy Chow with the storyline dealing greatly with the themes of fate, love and traditional Chinese supernatural beliefs. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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