Life Begins At Forty is a TVB

Television Broadcasts Limited

Television Broadcasts Limited, commonly known as TVB, is the second over-the-air commercial television station in Hong Kong. It commenced broadcasting on 19 November 1967...

 series in 20 episodes. It stars Alex Fong

Alex Fong

Alex Fong may refer to:*Alex Fong , Hong Kong TV and film actor*Alex Fong , professional swimmer-turned-actor and singer based in Hong Kong...

, Chin Ka Lok

Chin Ka Lok

Chin Kar Lok aka Chin Ka Lok is an actor, action choreographer....

, and Ram Tseung as forty somethings having issues with women, love, and work...

Main cast

• Alex Fong
  Alex Fong
  Alex Fong may refer to:*Alex Fong , Hong Kong TV and film actor*Alex Fong , professional swimmer-turned-actor and singer based in Hong Kong...
  
   (方中信)as Wei Fuk Wing 韋福榮
• Charmaine Sheh
  Charmaine Sheh
  Charmaine Sheh Sze-man is a Hong Kong TVB actress.Sheh is best known for her roles in TVB dramas, including Return of the Cuckoo, Country Spirit, Perish in the Name of Love, Angels of Mission, War and Beauty, The Dance of Passion,The Drive of Life, Maidens' Vow, Forensic Heroes II,Beyond the Realm...
  
   (佘詩曼) as Kwan Tze Kei 關子琪
• Chin Ka Lok
  Chin Ka Lok
  Chin Kar Lok aka Chin Ka Lok is an actor, action choreographer....
  
   (錢嘉樂) Chan Bing Gei 陳炳基
• Anne Heung
  Anne Heung
  Anne Heung Hoi Lam, born 2 October 1974, is a Hong Kong actress for TVB. In 2008, she announced her retirement from the entertainment industry.-Biography:Anne often stars in action, comedic and political TVB drama series...
  
   (向海嵐) as Mok Hui Nam 莫曉男
• Ram Tseung (蔣志光) Lo Ga Fai 羅家輝
• Shirley Yeung
  Shirley Yeung
  Shirley Yeung Sze-Ki, born 7 August 1978, is a Hong Kong actress under contract to the TVB television channel....
  
  (楊思琦)as Yuen Siu Mui 阮小梅

Synopsis

What do men go through once they hit the big four-zero? What goes on in their minds? What about their lifestyle, does it change? Their relationships, their worries, problems and secrets...

This drama is about three men in their forties, just starting to experience and understand their definition of life: issues with women, love, career, and many other relationships in life. Each have a story of their own that interconnects with one another; and an ending that no one can ever expect...

Plot

Ray, Wei Fuk Wing Orlando Acosta (Alex Fong) and his best childhood friends, Chan Bing Gei (Chin Ka Lok), and Lo Ga Fai (Ram Tseung) goes through different kinds of relationships in this drama. Ray works at an advertising company called AW. He was then informed that a new colleague, Kelly Kwan Tze Kei (Charmaine Sheh) will join AW, so he took her as his enemy. Ray never met her before, so when he meets her in a convenience store she has just broken up with her boyfriend and was very emotional. Ray calmed her down and since then they always met each other there coincidentally. One day when YP, AW's owner, is hiring new people to help Kelly, Kelly shows up. Ray thought she needed a job there when he saw her, but then he realized that she was Kelly Kwan when they bumped into YP. They fought a lot at work because of disagreements. One day when Kelly was unhappy and got drunk, Ray wanted to carry her home, but he didn't know where she lives so he brought her to a hotel and rented a room. One of their colleagues saw it and spread the rumor around AW. They tried avoiding bumping into each other afterwards, but then they were assigned a job together by YP. The client drank a lot and they didn't know what to do with him, so they brought him to rent a hotel room. The client accidentally barked on Ray, so Ray had to take off his shirt and wash it in the bathroom. Suddenly, there was a fire in the hotel and they ran out carrying out the client, but then after handing over their client to the ambulance they were trying to escape and got their picture taken that eventually ended up on the front page of the magazine. After all these misunderstandings, they eventually fell in loe with each other and went out. Meanwhile, playboy Chan Bing Gei, who opens a tutor center, plays around with girls he meets at bars until he one day heard that his wife that left him 20 years ago had suddenly came back. He started to look everywhere for him, but then one day a strange girl, Tung Tung (Casper Chan) pops up at his school and tells him that she's his daughter. Gei was shocked by this news, but still took her in as his daughter, but Tung doesn't mind his numerous amounts of girlfriends. Tung planned out a scheme of pretending to be her mother, Yuen Siu Mei (Shirley Yeung), by emailing Gei telling him to forget her and move on to another serious relationship. At the same time, Yeung Ling (Claire Yiu), Siu Mei's cousin, falls in love with Gei and Gei eventually fell in love her. So they tried to be together, but turns out it couldn't work out because Gei still misses his wife that he doesn't know is dead yet. So Ling got mad and flew off to US for further studies. Lo Ga Fai, an actor with small roles and big dreams, comes from a rich family and is gay. No one knows he is the son of a rich guy, so he is alway looked down on. One day, his boyfriend dumped him after a long time relationship, and then he met a famous movie star, Mok Hui Nam (Anne Heung), that is always pushy and never cherishes anything, especially love and concern for people, except for herself. After Nam and Fai met they didn't like each other at first and always fought with each other, but after some time Nam finds out he's gay and eventually fell in love with him because of his reasonable lectures and statements about cherishing what's in front of you. Nam became pregnant with Fai's brother from a past relationship. Fai fell in love with her too,and wanted to help her raise the baby, until he discover that he has brain cancer. He doesn't want to be a burden to them, so he rejects his love for her. The ending to this movie, is surprising and an ending no one would ever expect.