Moon, Star and Sun

Moon, Star and Sun follows three women working in Hong Kong nightlife who are each trying to change their circumstances. Porsche is a former star whose popularity is fading, grappling with aging and public judgment. May has landed at a nightclub because her stepfather's debts left her few options, and she worries about what the future will bring. GiGi is desperate to raise a large sum to help her fiancé, which forces her into difficult compromises. They all carry the stigma attached to their work and dream of a fresh start, yet feel trapped by a local saying that 'bad girls never have fortune.' The film traces their intersecting days and nights without revealing how their struggles resolve, with consequences.

Released in 1988, the film was directed by Michael Mak Tong-Kit and created by Stephen Shiu Yeuk-Yuen. It features leading performances from Cherie Chung, Carol Cheng and Maggie Cheung, placing familiar faces in a melodramatic portrait of nightlife lives today.

Box office figures for Moon, Star and Sun are not widely reported, and it did not have a major international release. In Hong Kong it played within the local circuit, attracting audiences familiar with its cast rather than global distribution.

Though not a household title outside Hong Kong, the movie added to late 1980s local cinema that treated nightlife with melodrama and social realism. Its casting of high-profile actresses helped reinforce portrayals of working women in Hong Kong films and supplied a reference point for depictions of stigma and survival.

Contemporary critical coverage was limited, but viewers interested in social melodramas noted its focus on reputation, economic pressure and solidarity among women. It foregrounds moral judgment and class constraints, using nightclubs to show how choices are shaped by debt, love and desire for a different life and difficulty escaping stigma.