Lai noted that tight relations between neighbors living in poor conditions and human kindness are also attractive points for today's audiences. Besides Lau and Cheng, the drama also focuses on the fate of poor people during these troubled times, and tries to faithfully depict their experiences to raise the awareness of audiences. The love story between the two is set against the background of the city's struggles during the Japanese occupation and the harmful opium trade. He has worked hard all his life to ensure the best life for his own family. On the other hand, Lau Sing (Lai) is the leader of the Criminal Investigation Team. Set in Guangzhou, South China's Guangdong Province, during the late 1930s to the late 1940s, No Regrets is an epic drama that centers on a triad family, the Guangzhou police force and the Japanese occupation of the city.Ĭheng Kau-mui (Tang) is the eldest daughter of Cheng Long-kwan (Elliot Ngok), the gang's kingpin, and helps her father run the family's opium business.
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Shi noted that TV series can both entertain and educate audiences, so works that portray correct historical perspectives and values are able to teach Hong Kong viewers a valuable historical lesson so that they can become more familiar with the suffering of the Chinese people and their resistance against aggressors, and therefore have a deeper sense of identity as Chinese.
Shi Wenxue, a cultural critic in Beijing, told the Global Times that Hong Kong has had several TV dramas and movies with such themes, like 2017's Our Time Will Come, which did an excellent job depicting the resistance movement during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong. He said that he thinks historic themes and stories about the motherland, including those involving the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1931-45), have an advantage over other themes, so they can more easily become popular among Hong Kong audiences as people get to see many things that they could never experience in an age of peace. "I think the success of No Regrets is mainly due to the depiction of the deep love between people during wartime, which is different from the romantic love among young people today and exclusively belongs to that era," Lai told the Global Times.
On Chinese media review platform Douban, the show has a high 9.3/10 and clips of Lai's performance are often posted as memes on social media.
When the two appeared on the red carpet arm in arm, many fans leapt onto China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo to express their joy as the two once played a popular couple in the Hong Kong period TV series No Regrets in 2010.Īlthough a dozen years have passed, the series remains one of Hong Kong's best received dramas. Lai attended Anhui TV's Domestic TV Series Ceremony on the first day of 2022 with Hong Kong actress Sheren Tang (Tang Shui-man). Photo: Courtesy of Wayne LaiWayne Lai (Lai Yiu-cheung,) one of Hong Kong's most successful TV actors and a winner of three TVB Anniversary Awards for Best Actor, has been working and living in the Chinese mainland for more than nine months now, enjoying the convenience that rapid development has brought to people's daily lives. Wayne Lai poses for a photo in front of the Forbidden City in December 2021 while traveling in Beijing.
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