"The public response has been overwhelmingly favorable to this talented director of the 'new wave'. In Father and Son, Fong deliberately breaks away from the commercial trends of Hong Kong cinema to concentrate upon domestic drama which calls to mind the best of Vidor, Wyler and Stevens. To a certain degree, the film has been called 'autobiographical' because it involves a young boy whose fantasy world is the cinema, an escape from the squatter-hut poverty in which his family lives. The boy's father, a clerk of minor status, has great ambitions for his son...there is a constant struggle between the two to reach an understanding of mutual goals. The film covers a twenty year period, so that the relationship between father and son is totally delineated, and there are sequences of great emotional power and sincerity which are universally true. As with most great films, an undercurrent of tragedy permeates the work." --Albert Johnson, San Francisco Film Festival '81