Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Washed-out film director Tin Lik-hang is encountering series of crisis in life, Fact2: film company is bankrupt and debt-ridden as result, Fact3: Koo On take care of 79-year-old dementia-ridden father other hand, Fact4: Yat-hung In midst of begins to shed layer of cicada Lik-hang 's miserable plight, Fact5: father struggled to make better life for family
Output (English): Washedout film director Tin Likhang Louis Koo is encountering a series of crisis in life. His mother has recently passed away, his film company is bankrupt and debtridden as a result, while wife wants a divorce. On the other hand, he must now take care of his 79yearold dementiaridden father, Yathung Francis Ng. In the midst of Likhangs miserable plight, Yathung suddenly begins to shed a layer of skin every day like a cicada, each time making him look ten years younger, from ages 60 to 52 to 37 to 28 to 19. As Yathung approaches the same age as his son, they bond at a football stadium where they used to spend their weekends. Yathung even helps frighten debt collectors after his son, and charms both Likhangs wife and his mistress. With Yathungs six stages of life reappearing, Likhang, who never seriously got along with his father, was able to travel into the six eras of his fathers life, and gain new understandings for his father, who struggled to make a better life for his family. Likhang also has the opportunity to have one final meal with his mother, before returning to his reality with passion anew to revive his own career and marriage after learning from the twists and turns experienced by his father.