# Hooked on You (每当变幻时)
**Hooked on You** (每当变幻时; traditional Chinese: 每当变幻时) is a 2007 Hong Kong comedy-drama film directed and edited by Law Wing-cheong, produced by [Johnnie To](https://www.edgepedia.org/johnnie-to) and his company Milkyway Image, and starring Miriam Yeung and [Eason Chan](https://www.edgepedia.org/eason-chan) as two rival fish sellers in a traditional wet market. The story runs from the summer of 1997 to 2007, using the decade after Hong Kong's handover to China as the backdrop for a romance between two market traders.[1](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Hooked_on_You?hl=en_US&id=9BABF573CAD25AFDMV) • [2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title | 每当变幻时 (Mui dong bin wan si); English title Hooked on You[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/) |
| Director / producer | Law Wing-cheong, who also edited; produced by Johnnie To, Milkyway Image; Media Asia Films[1](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Hooked_on_You?hl=en_US&id=9BABF573CAD25AFDMV) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/) |
| Cast | Miriam Yeung (Miu), Eason Chan (Fishman), Huang Bo (Porky), Stanley Fung (Miu's father), William Feng (Cakeman)[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/fullcredits/) |
| Release | 28 June 2007 per Media Asia, with Hong Kong and mainland releases of 29 June 2007 also reported; rated IIA; 97 minutes; Cantonese[2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/) |
| Setting | Fortune Market (富贵墟), a traditional wet market, from 1997 to 2007[2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/) |
| Box office | HK$7.51 million in Hong Kong and 2.32 million yuan in mainland China, placing in the 2007 Hong Kong top ten; IMDb lists a worldwide gross of $1,558,343[5](https://www.sohu.com/a/550844451_100024718) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/) |
| Title song | The 1980s Cantonese pop song "每当变幻时" by 薰妮 (Fan Ni); the film's theme of the same name was performed by Miriam Yeung[6](https://www.yesasia.com/global/%E6%AF%8F%E7%95%B6%E8%AE%8A%E5%B9%BB%E6%99%82-dvd-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%89%88/1004920982-0-0-0-zh_TW/info.html) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
In the summer of 1997, 27-year-old Miu (阿妙, played by Miriam Yeung) is forced to work as a fishmonger at Fortune Market to pay off the heavy debts of her philandering, gambling father (Stanley Fung). Having seen the tangled human relations of the market, she resolves never to marry a market man. She sets herself a three-year plan: before turning 30 she will clear her father's debts, leave the wet market, and find a man worth marrying.[2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/)
Fishman (鱼佬, Eason Chan), a fellow fish seller who has invested his whole life in the market and acts as its local bully, fights a running commercial battle with the quick-witted Miu. When the arrival of supermarket megastores pushes the market into crisis, the two rivals are forced to cooperate to save it. The rescue fails, but through it each develops feelings for the other, which Miu cannot bring herself to accept because she has always disdained market life.[2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/)
**Departure and return.** Soon after, Miu's father dies of a heart attack. With the government announcing the market's demolition, Miu leaves so she need not face Fishman day after day. She enrolls in a makeup course under a government retraining program and builds a new career in the makeup world.[2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/) In the autumn of 2005, Auntie Veggie returns from emigration with the gravely ill Uncle Chicken, and Fishman, Miu, and Porky (黄渤, Huang Bo) gather the former stallholders to recreate Fortune Market one last time. Through this Miu realizes that criteria, identities, and deadlines do not matter; what matters is finding someone she loves who loves her back. The market is eventually demolished, and the two leads, growing alongside it, miss each other across the decade.[2](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/)
## Production
The film was written by Fung Chih-chiang, shot by cinematographer O Sing-pui, with music by Dennie Wong, and was a co-production involving Media Asia Films, Beijing Silver Dream Film & TV Art, and China Film Media Asia Audio Video Distribution, with Milkyway Image as the production studio.[4](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/fullcredits/) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/) • [7](https://mail.cinemasie.com/en/fiche/oeuvre/hookedonyou/)
**Building the market.** To recreate an authentic Hong Kong street market, the crew built the full Fortune Market set, complete with fish, pork, biscuit, and other stalls, inside an abandoned market at Luen Wo Hui (联合墟) in Fanling. Director Law Wing-cheong described the market as a microcosm of Hong Kong society.[8](https://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2007-06-27/11241615325.shtml?from=wap)
The title comes from the 1980s [Cantonese](https://www.edgepedia.org/cantonese) song "每当变幻时" by 薰妮, a producer credit of Johnnie To's; the film's theme song of the same name, composed by Zhou Lan Pin with lyrics by Kwok-Jim Lo, was performed by Miriam Yeung.[6](https://www.yesasia.com/global/%E6%AF%8F%E7%95%B6%E8%AE%8A%E5%B9%BB%E6%99%82-dvd-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%89%88/1004920982-0-0-0-zh_TW/info.html) • [3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/)
## The handover anniversary context
Hooked on You was made for the tenth anniversary of Hong Kong's return to Chinese sovereignty in 2007. The film opens with Miu turning a calendar to July 1997, then follows the market and its people through ten years of change, using famous events in Hong Kong history as background color rather than direct commentary.[8](https://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2007-06-27/11241615325.shtml?from=wap) • [9](https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/hooked_on_you.htm) The romance between a woman who wants to leave the market and a man who wants to preserve it has been read as a reflection of Hong Kong society's own tensions between change and continuity in that decade; the @movies synopsis describes the two leads as one nostalgic and one innovating, entangled for ten years around the old Fortune Market.[10](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fhhk51020976/) Film scholar David Bordwell, an emeritus professor at the [University of Wisconsin–Madison](https://www.edgepedia.org/university-of-wisconsin-madison), uses the film to emblemize the dynamic he calls keeping up while looking back in late-2000s Hong Kong cinema, capturing Hong Kongers as ambitious and resourceful, ready to move on when things are not working out.[11](https://www.davidbordwell.net/books/planethongkong-davidbordwell-110111.pdf)
## Reception and box office
The film opened strongly in Hong Kong, taking HK$580,000 on its first day.[12](https://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b355d2601000bn9.html) Its Hong Kong total reached about HK$7.51 million, with 2.32 million yuan in mainland China, placing it in the 2007 Hong Kong box office top ten.[5](https://www.sohu.com/a/550844451_100024718) IMDb lists a worldwide gross of $1,558,343.[3](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/)
**Critical response.** LoveHKFilm's review found the film occasionally contrived and cloying but entertaining and even touching, with winning performances from Yeung and Chan, and suggested that, as of late June 2007, it might be the class of 2007 among Hong Kong releases.[9](https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/hooked_on_you.htm) On Rotten Tomatoes it holds a Tomatometer score of 62%.[13](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hooked_on_you) Its Douban rating stands at 8.0 from 66,858 votes,[14](https://hkcinema.cn/film/1136) and retrospective commentary has credited its realistic, non-saccharine ending for its enduring reputation.[15](https://asianwiki.com/Hooked_on_You) Reviewers have also noted that supporting players Huang Bo and William Feng later became leading actors in mainland Chinese cinema.[16](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2145485)
## References
1. [Hooked on You, Google Play Movies description](https://play.google.com/store/movies/details/Hooked_on_You?hl=en_US&id=9BABF573CAD25AFDMV)
2. [每當變幻時, Media Asia film page](https://www.mediaasia.com/Zh-hant/Movies/Info/65/)
3. [Hooked on You (2007), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/)
4. [Hooked on You (2007), Full cast & crew, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1020976/fullcredits/)
5. [豆瓣8.0，我看一次哭一次, Sohu / 新周刊](https://www.sohu.com/a/550844451_100024718)
6. [每當變幻時 (DVD) (香港版), YesAsia](https://www.yesasia.com/global/%E6%AF%8F%E7%95%B6%E8%AE%8A%E5%B9%BB%E6%99%82-dvd-%E9%A6%99%E6%B8%AF%E7%89%88/1004920982-0-0-0-zh_TW/info.html)
7. [Hooked on You, Ciné-Ressources / CinemaSiE](https://mail.cinemasie.com/en/fiche/oeuvre/hookedonyou/)
8. [《每当变幻时》浓缩时间 折射香港十年变迁, Sina Entertainment](https://ent.sina.com.cn/m/c/2007-06-27/11241615325.shtml?from=wap)
9. [Hooked on You (每當變幻時) (2007), LoveHKFilm review by Kozo](https://www.lovehkfilm.com/reviews_2/hooked_on_you.htm)
10. [每當變幻時 Hooked on You, @movies 開眼電影網](https://app2.atmovies.com.tw/film/fhhk51020976/)
11. [David Bordwell, Planet Hong Kong chapter PDF](https://www.davidbordwell.net/books/planethongkong-davidbordwell-110111.pdf)
12. [《中国电影报道》：杨千嬅陈奕迅互相吹捧《变幻时》香港飘红, Sina Blog](https://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_4b355d2601000bn9.html)
13. [Hooked on You, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hooked_on_you)
14. [每当变幻时 (Hooked On You, 2007), hkcinema.cn](https://hkcinema.cn/film/1136)
15. [Hooked on You, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/Hooked_on_You)
16. [歌中戏｜每当变幻时，便知时光去, 澎湃新闻](https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_2145485)
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