2015 Directed by Emily Ting
In this sparkling romance, Ruby, a Chinese American toy designer from LA, visits Hong Kong for the first time on business. Finding herself stranded, she meets Josh, an American expat who shows her the city.
В Гонконге уже завтра, It's Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong
Maybe this was the right film and the right time for me or something, but I just REALLY loved this one. If I were to describe "my kind of film", it would be something exactly like this - a lot of dialogue, very little action. I have never had any sort of desire to travel to Hong Kong, but after seeing this one, Hong Kong just got a place on my places-to-visit list. The cast is great, the chemistry between them is incredible and I love how the dialogue mixes humor with discussion about culture, heritage, and so on. I like to travel alone, I guess in some sense this film fills that dream of traveling and meeting someone you instantly connect with. The ending is also pure perfection and something I always get very excited about when I see it used in films.
It is not perfect, but it was perfect for me at this moment in time.
Never thought I had seen the true embodiment of pure evil until I finally saw a movie that makes Hong Kong look incredibly boring.
Obviously a ripoff of a much better film (you know the one) but my thirst for Bryan Greenberg is unquenchable so here we are.
Emily Ting’s It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong is a different kind of fantasy, one of ex-patriates in Hong Kong and, more distressingly, of indie filmmakers weaned on Before Sunrise. Jamie Chung plays an American from Los Angeles (her grandparents emigrated from Hong Kong) lost in the city who runs into a fellow American named Josh. He’s the Joshiest Josh in film history, working in finance but really, an aspiring novelist. Actor Bryan Greenberg looks like the child of Michael Rappaport and John Krasczinski, but with even worse hair than that implies. He shows her around, lets slip way too late in the evening that he has a girlfriend and the couple splits. . . only to reunite a year…
I reviewed Emily Ting's interracial variation on the Before... series for Paste here.
Three things to add:
1. I have no idea why anyone felt it necessary to take out the "It's" in this film's original title to just be Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong. It makes about as much sense as, say, changing around the "are" and "all" in Oliver Laxe's We Are All Captains to make it We All Are Captains.
2. A possible hidden subtext of my review is that, as someone who a) left a corporate-ish job (though in my case not entirely by choice) to try to pursue a writing career, and b) is an Asian-American who has his own anxieties about not being more…
I was watching this movie and already guessing that I would read many reviews comparing this one with Before Sunrise...
And I was right!
Well..just because there are also two people that meet each other in a city?
Just because they also talk with each other?!
Wooow...sorry...but going in that way I think that these people have to compare so many much movies...
And I was hoping for another cliche in that reviews: bahhh..this sucks...Before Sunrise is so much better..and blablabla...
Once more I was right!
So..I have to say that I really enjoyed more this one....
I'm sorry to tell you that I don't find any chemistry between Jesse and Celine...I just found them boring, specially Celine!!
Since this one I felt a very good chemistry between the couple!
Don't know if this film is a guilty pleasure and to be honest I just don't care about it!
I liked this film!
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Film #2 of 30 in my March Around The World | 2018 Challenge (Hong Kong)
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For her feature film debut, writer-director Emily Ting brings us a romance set in Hong Kong. She shows us the cityscape. the crowded streets, the glaring neon signs, the bustling restaurants, the traffic, and settles the camera on a bar about 11pm on a Friday evening. That's where an expatriate New Yorker named Joshua 'Josh' Rosenberg (Brian Greenberg) in a collared shirt and loose necktie overhears Chinese-American visitor Ruby Lin (Jamie Chung) talking on her cell phone.
Ruby's trying to get directions to Lan Kwau Fong, where her friend is waiting for her, when she loses reception. Josh offers to walk her there.…
I've always really liked Bryan Greenberg, remember Jamie Chung being very likeable on 'The Real World' (a tough feat), and have an immense weakness for foreign affairs on film, even if Greenberg and Chung are both American. This is a very simple walk-and-talk film that takes place in Hong Kong. It should hit a lot of right spots but I felt a bit uneasy during it.
Given the leads are now married to each other, the chemistry between them is a given, and night-time Hong Kong does make a gorgeous backdrop, but the dialogue is just really very terrible. Clunky and predictable, conversation throughout the film feels very stilted (perhaps natural for a real-life meet-cute but rather alienating on film).…
nobody does the walking a city and talking for hours genre better than Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke in the Before movies
We laughed for like 5 minutes bc he was walking like a sim at one point
Don’t love the deal with the ending but I liked their dynamic enough that I enjoyed this, helps that I’m a Bryan Greenberg simp
10 mins into the film and I had to turn it off. The acting was so bad, and the dialogue was cringeworthy. 😖
Don’t know why it even has 3 stars here
"You can take it as a compliment. You know you've made it when you've been ripped off in China"
Josh delivers this line late into Always Tomorrow in Hong Kong after Ruby discovers fraudulent copies of her toy designs at a late-night street market. Whether this dialogue is a subtle nod to Richard Linklater or a throwaway quip, the screenplay similarities to his beloved Before series are undisputable.
Always Tomorrow in Hong Kong follows ex-pat banker Josh and travelling toy designer Ruby as they wind through Hong Kong's neon-soaked, nighttime cityscape. What begins as a platonic encounter of convenience soon gives way to a growing bond that challenges their careers and love lives. Always Tomorrow is a walking and talking…
Definitely was the right time when I saw it the first time. This time around, harder to overlook the corniness, unoriginal story, and Greenberg’s flat performance (felt like an inter-season movie accompanying How To Make It In America).
Still, HK is beautiful, dialogue is sometimes ok, and I’m a sucker for the Before vibes (and stolen scenes), even when it’s just a worse version. What’s missing vs. the movie it’s clearly inspired by is the existentialism about time and space, identity and love, men and women, to go along with the quasi-profound small talk about life.
This time around, the sketchiness of what they’re doing was much more apparent to me. You also just can’t have an ending like that, what a cop-out
Yeess it’s obviously very Linklater...but with less thought-provoking conversation, less emotion, more neon-lit noise and different type of adventure in a Chinese metropolis, and Ruby doesn’t look like she’d ever be able to play me a timeless waltz on her guitar.
ultimate comfort movie! this just makes me so blissful every time i watch it and i'll never get tired of this film
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