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Point of No Return (2003)

Point of No Return poster
Original title
西關大少
Cast
Damian Lau, Angie Chiu, Julian Cheung, Charmaine Sheh, Sammul Chan, Rosanne Lui, Wong Ching, Chan Hung Lit
Genre
drama television series
Country
Hong Kong
Length
1 season, 30 episodes
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 2 voters

How it feels

This series follows a family running a shipping business in 1920s Guangzhou. It focuses on their personal lives and the romantic entanglements between characters.

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What happens

Point of No Return (Traditional Chinese: 西關大少) is a 30-episode TVB drama broadcast between November 2003 and December 2003. It is a story about a family shipping business and various love triangles set in Guangzhou, China, in the 1920s. This series again saw Julian Cheung and Charmaine Sheh as an on-screen couple after their partnership in Return of the Cuckoo (2000), and as with previous occasions, their on screen chemistry was praised by audiences. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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