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    The Lyricist Wannabe

    Cantonese poster of the movie The Lyricist Wannabe
    2023     Drama    
    Hong Kong/Taiwan
    1h 52min
    Original language: Cantonese, Mandarin
    PG
    PG

    Sze (Chung Suet Ying) emails all of Hong Kong's record companies, attends every lyric writing courses and joins all lyric writing contests for an opportunity. She even writes demo lyrics for various composers, but none of her lyrics get published. For a chance to finally be a published lyricist, Sze pitches songs to record companies in Taiwan during her graduation trip. The composer ends up receiving a contract, but her lyrics are not used. Sze runs into an old classmate while working part-time at a radio station and finally gets an offer to write published lyrics. However, the singers rejected her lyrics... Ten years of ups and downs make Sze see the hollowness of dreams. She realizes that the pain of chasing dreams is real.

    Directed byNorris Wong
    Written byNorris Wong
    CompanyCHIMECHIMECHIME

    Starring

    Suet-Ying Chung
    Anson Chan
    Pak-Yu Chan
    Sunny Chan
    Oscar Chiu
    Henick Chou
    Pak Hon Chu
    Ng Ka-Yan Jeannie
    Eric Kot
    Ken Ho-Ming Law
    Chung-Hang Leung
    Nien-Hsien Ma
    Ping Ng
    Sabrina Ng
    Ernest Poon
    Yuen-Leung Poon
    Luna Shaw
    Yukki Tai
    Lai-Ying Tang
    Stephy Tang
    Tony Tsz-Tung Wu

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