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My Name Ain't Suzie

Angie Chen, 1985
Hong Kong, 96min

In her ambitious follow-up to Maybe It's Love, Angie Chen offers a rebuke to the colonial imagination of films such as The World of Suzie Wong (1960), bringing post-war Hong Kong to life on her own terms. Shui-Mei (Patricia Ha), a “salt water girl” from the outskirts of the city, finds a way out of poverty in the Red Light district of Wan Chai. Over the years, she rises through the ranks, discovering a world of equal hardship and sisterly camaraderie, where colorful characters abound – among them Jimmy (Anthony Wong, in his debut role), a mixed-race kid looking for his father in the crowd of thirsty American sailors. 

Penned by John Chan Koon Chung (My Heart Is That Eternal Rose), My Name Ain’t Suzie brings a New Wave sensibility to the waning years of the Shaw Brothers Studio with a decade-spanning epic that resourcefully reconstructs a bygone era of Cantonese cinema. A rags-to-riches story blending romance and brothel drama, Chen’s film is above all a tale of feminine resilience at the nexus of historical events and shifting colonial powers.



Bonus features

  • Newly commisioned 2K restoration from the original camera negatives and best surviving elements
  • Interview with director Angie Chen (12mins, 2026)
  • Interview with screenwriter and planner John Chan (17mins, 2026)
  • "Becoming Jimmy" on casting Anthony Wong, with Angie Chen, John Chan, and Anthony Wong (8mins, 2026)
  • Angie Chen on "Working in Hong Kong" (10mins, 2026)
  • Original Theatrical Trailer
  • Booklet with new writing by Xueli Wang

In her ambitious follow-up to Maybe It's Love, Angie Chen offers a rebuke to the colonial imagination of films such as The World of Suzie Wong (1960), bringing post-war Hong Kong to life on her own terms. Shui-Mei (Patricia Ha), a “salt water girl” from the outskirts of the city, finds a way out of poverty in the Red Light district of Wan Chai. Over the years, she rises through the ranks, discovering a world of equal hardship and sisterly camaraderie, where colorful characters abound – among them Jimmy (Anthony Wong, in his debut role), a mixed-race kid looking for his father in the crowd of thirsty American sailors. 

Penned by John Chan Koon Chung (My Heart Is That Eternal Rose), My Name Ain’t Suzie brings a New Wave sensibility to the waning years of the Shaw Brothers Studio with a decade-spanning epic that resourcefully reconstructs a bygone era of Cantonese cinema. A rags-to-riches story blending romance and brothel drama, Chen’s film is above all a tale of feminine resilience at the nexus of historical events and shifting colonial powers.



Bonus features