Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love

Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love
十萬噸情緣

Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love official poster
Also known as One Hundred Thousand Tons of Love
Genre Modern Drama, Romance, Comedy
Created by Hong Kong Television Broadcasts Limited
Written by Chan Chi-ho, Cheung Jung-cai, Fung Ching-man, Ma Ka-wai, Hon Yue-ting, Ha chi-him
Directed by Chan Wai-koon, So Man-chung, Hung Kam-put, Ng ka-kan
Starring Maggie Cheung Ho-yee
Nick Cheung
Joyce Tang
Ram Chiang
Angela Tong
Stephen Au
Theme music composer Tats Lau & Boombeat
Opening theme Full Speed Ahead (全速前進) by Nick Cheung
Country of origin Hong Kong
Original language(s) Cantonese
No. of episodes 20
Production
Executive producer(s) Virginia Lok
Producer(s) Lam Chi Wah
Location(s) Hong Kong, California, USA
Editor(s) Chu Geng Kai
Camera setup Multi camera
Running time 45 minutes
Production company(s) TVB
Release
Original network TVB Jade
Picture format 576i (SDTV)
Original release 5 May (2003-05-05) – 30 May 2003 (2003-05-30)
External links
Website
Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love
Chinese 十萬噸情緣
Literal meaning "One Hundred Thousand Tons of Love"

Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love (Chinese: 十萬噸情緣; Jyutping: sap6 maan6 deon1 cing4 jyun4; literally "One Hundred Thousand Tons Love") is a 2003 Hong Kong romantic comedy television drama created and produced by TVB, starring Maggie Cheung Ho-yee, Nick Cheung, Joyce Tang, Ram Chiang, Angela Tong and Stephen Au as the main cast.[1] Filming took place in summer 2002 on location in Hong Kong,California USA and a cruise ship docked at Victoria Harbour. Original broadcast began on Hong Kong's Jade July 5 till May 30, 2003 every Monday through Friday during its 9:30 to 10:30 pm timeslot with a total of 20 episodes.

Synopsis

After being dumped by her fiancee, Yama (Maggie Cheung Ho-yee) meets Cruise Director Jason (Nick Cheung), who consoles her. The two fall in love and get married immediately, however when her ex-fiancee wants her back, Jason and Yama have a misunderstanding that causes them to divorce immediately. After divorcing Jason, Yama seeks the advice of a fortune teller who tells her she is going through a bad luck spell. Three years later Yama works at the Goddess Travil agency. After tending to a difficult client she receives a fax that she has won a trip on the company's cruise ship. She takes her flirtatious best-friend Pauline (Angela Tong), as her guest. Jason also works on the same cruise ship Yama has just boarded with his roommate/underling Christine (Joyce Tang). He also brings along his other roommate NG (Ram Chiang), who is a romance novelist that writes under a pen-name.

Once Yama and Jason run into each other, havoc happens. NG and Christine gets Pauline drunk to try to get her to divulge information about Yama, while Jason tries to embarrass Yama who is having dinner with the difficult client she previously tended to at the traveling agency. Furious of their actions, Yama lies that she is the Head Of Goddess Travil LA office and that she will have them all fired. Fearful of losing his job, Jason agrees to all of Yama's rigorous punishments, but she goes to far in making Jason suffer and he rebels against her punishments. Yama's difficult client hears them arguing and checks on them. Jason who thinks the client is romantically interested in Yama's exposes all of her bad habits to him, which makes Yama threaten Jason again with her lie of being the head of the travel agency's LA office. The difficult client is furious with Yama's lie and exposes his true identity as the real head of the travel agency's LA office.

Yama finds out that she didn't really win a free trip, the difficult client was never romantically interested in her and the fake trip was really an evaluation test as the real head of the travel agency's LA office saw potential in her because of the way she handled him at the traveling agency office. Seeing how Yama and Jason don't get along, the head of the main office pits them together to work on the cruise next advertising theme. The two continue to make life difficult for each other. Later Yama finds out that she is able to sue Jason for alimony support which causes him to hire Lau Wah (Stephen Au), to pretend to be interested in Yama and marry her so he can get out of paying alimony to her. Jason later finds out that Lau Wah has ulterior motives for Yama and tries to warn her, but she doesn't believe him thinking he is trying to ruin her new found love.[2][3][4]

Cast

Main cast

Tin family

Fong family

Lau family

Goddess Travil staff

Extended cast

Viewership Ratings

# Timeslot (HKT) Week Episode(s) Average points Peaking points
1
Mon – Fri 21:30
05-10 May 2003
1 — 5
31
2
12–17 May 2003
6 — 10
32
3
19–24 May 2003
11 — 15
32
4
26–30 May 2003
16 — 20
33
38
Total average 32

References

  1. ↑ Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love spcnet page. Retrieved June 8, 2015
  2. ↑ Ups and Downs in the Sea of Love DVD info. Retrieved June 8, 2015
  3. ↑ Drama review. Retrieved June 8, 2015
  4. ↑ spcnet review. Retrieved June 8, 2015
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