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A Moment of Romance II (天若有情II之天长地久)

A Moment of Romance II (天若有情II之天长地久) is a 1993 Hong Kong action romance film directed by Benny Chan Muk-Sing, produced by Johnnie To, and starring Aaron Kwok and Wu Chien-Lien. It is the second entry in the A Moment of Romance series begun with the 1990 film A Moment of Romance, and it replaces that film's lead Andy Lau with Aaron Kwok while returning Wu Chien-Lien in a different role.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Chinese title	天若有情II之天长地久 (also written 天若有情Ⅱ之天長地久); English title A Moment of Romance II³
Director / producer	Benny Chan Muk-Sing (director); Johnnie To Kei-Fung (producer); writer Susan Chan Suk-Yin²
Cast	Aaron Kwok Fu-Sing as Frank, Wu Chien-Lien as Celia (Siu Sin), with Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Roger Kwok Chun-On, Kwan Hoi-San, and Paul Chun Pui²
Hong Kong release	10 June 1993 per the Japanese film database Kungfu Tube; Douban and GoldPoster list 11 June 1993³^•⁴
Box office	HK$9,146,482 in Hong Kong, ranking 56th for the year³
Runtime	87 minutes per Douban; Rotten Tomatoes lists 1h 35m⁴^•¹
Series position	Second of three films; A Moment of Romance III followed in 1996⁵

Spoilers

Plot

Celia (Siu Sin in the Cantonese track), played by Wu Chien-Lien, is a mainlander who sneaks into Hong Kong to raise money to free her jailed brother, and works as a prostitute toward that end.² Before her first assignment she becomes entangled in a triad murder; she flees the scene with the money, and the real killer within the gang orders her hunted down.⁸ She is rescued by Frank (Aaron Kwok), a young biker from a wealthy but broken family who is at odds with his father (Paul Chun), and the two fall in love.²

To win the prize money that would help Celia, Frank enters a dangerous motorcycle race.⁶ In the ending described by the Apple TV synopsis, Frank wins the race but is killed by the gangsters' men while taking Celia to the boat that will carry her home; she departs under the kindly lie of the old policeman Uncle Biu (Kwan Hoi-San), carrying wishes that can never be fulfilled.⁹

Production

The film was made in Hong Kong, produced by Johnnie To Kei-Fung and written by Susan Chan Suk-Yin, with Benny Chan Muk-Sing directing.² The action design was handled by Deon Lam Dik-On, Ma Yuk-Sing, and Wu Chi-Lung, and the vehicle stunts were performed by the stunt driver Bruce Law, whose car work several reviewers singled out.⁶^•⁷

Cast

Aaron Kwok plays Frank, the motorcyclist; Wu Chien-Lien plays Celia, a role different from her Jojo in the 1990 original.¹^•² The supporting cast includes Anthony Wong Chau-Sang as a vicious biker named Dino, Paul Chun Pui as Frank's father, Kwan Hoi-San as the policeman Uncle Biu, Roger Kwok Chun-On, Cheung Tat-Ming, and Ho Ka-Kui.²^•⁹

Reception

The film was received as a clear step down from its predecessor. On Rotten Tomatoes it holds a Tomatometer of 48 percent from one critic review, with a Popcornmeter average of 3.2 out of 5 from more than 250 user ratings.¹ Kozo of the review site LoveHKFilm called it "a tear-jerker of the most manipulative sort" and "vastly inferior" to the first film, faulting uneven storytelling and plotting that produces manufactured pathos, while crediting Anthony Wong's performance as the film's strongest.²

Reviewers repeatedly made the same comparison: the chemistry between Kwok and Wu Chien-Lien did not match that of Wu and Andy Lau in the 1990 film, and the soundtrack was judged weaker than the original's.⁷^•¹⁰ Praise concentrated on the racing sequences and stunts; one Letterboxd reviewer called Benny Chan's direction of the racing parts "stunning and cool" and noted the film carries more explosions than the original.⁷ A French-language review at Dark Side Reviews judged it an honest and effective entertainment despite being clearly inferior to the first film, provided one does not ask too much of it.¹¹

Place in the series

The film shares cast, crew, story beats, and iconography with the 1990 original, which was itself Benny Chan's directorial debut with Johnnie To as producer.⁷^•¹² A third film, A Moment of Romance III, directed with Andy Lau and Wu Chien-Lien returning, followed in 1996.⁵

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Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026