
Nine Days(2021)
A bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.


Seated in the front row of a funeral hall are a boy and a teenager, the picture of the deceased yet to be placed. A florist, Tung (Ai Wai), is consumed by grief but puts on a front for others. The boy drops by at the florist and orders a custom floral arrangement - a teddy bear-shaped wreath with his favourite yellow flowers — to be readied in three days' time and paid with money saved up in his piggy bank. Tung forges an unlikely friendship with his young customer, an encounter that releases bottled-up emotions so that healing process can begin.

Wilson Ai Wai
Tung / Lam Yik Tung
Ronald Wong Cheuk Lam
Chau Tze Ho
Ellen Liu Oi-Ling
Tung's Wife
Hui Chi Sang
Kit / Lam Tze Kit
May Leong
Staff in Flower Shop

Yeung Yee-Yee
Ho's Grandma
Ho Fung
Ho's Father
Wong Suk-nga
Ho's Relatives
Peter Au Wai-Kuen
Staff in Funeral Home
Ling Hoi Lam
Corpse
Flowers with Aphasia is a drama, fantasy film released in 2012. Directed by Li Sum-Yuet, it stars Wilson Ai Wai, Ronald Wong Cheuk Lam, Ellen Liu Oi-Ling. Seated in the front row of a funeral hall are a boy and a teenager, the picture of the deceased yet to be placed. A florist, Tung (Ai Wai), is consumed by grief but puts on a front for others. The boy drops by at the florist and orders a custom floral arrangement - a teddy bear-shaped wreath with his favourite yellow flowers — to be readied in three days' time and paid with money saved up in his piggy bank. Tung forges an unlikely friendship with his young customer, an encounter that releases bottled-up emotions so that healing process can begin.
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