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Love Is Elsewhere

2008 film by Vincent Zhao

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ6691890
Source-derived summary

Love Is Elsewhere (愛情萬歲) is a 2008 Hong Kong romantic drama film. The film is based on an original story by Cheung Fan (張帆), edited by Yau Chi Wai (邱志偉) and directed by Vincent Chui (崔允信). The film had its world premiere at the 32nd Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2008.

Cast

Pakho Chau as Joe Yueng (楊溢德)

Ken Hung as Ah Sing (阿星)

Jason Chan as Ah Sung (阿生)

Sherman Chung as Yat-Ching Wong (黃日晴)

Yumiko Cheng as Sandra (阿如)

Chelsea Tong as Kelly

Charmaine Fong as Maggie

Patrick Tang as Ji-Ho Fong (方志豪)

Louis Cheung as Martin Hui (許少雄)

Guest appearance

Clarence Hui (許願) as Ah Sing's uncle

Featured songs

"Foolish Boy" (傻小子) - Pakho Chau from the album Continue

"Rare" (萬中無一) - Jason Chan from the album First Experience

"Love. Gutless" (愛. 無膽) - Ken Hung from the album Love.

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The public source identifies “Love Is Elsewhere” as 2008 film by Vincent Zhao. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Love, Elsewhere and film.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2008-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Love, Elsewhere and film providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6691890. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Love Is Elsewhere” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.