Hong Kong The Boys in Company C is a Hong Kong–Philippines co-production — one of only a handful of such cross-border film titles indexed here.
Synopsis
“To keep their sanity in an insane war, they had to be crazy.”
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.
Hong Kong × Philippines Co-Production
Other Hong Kong×Philippines titles
Other Titles From Columbia Pictures
The 1977–1979 Hong Kong Window
The Boys in Company C holds position #23 of 56 Hong Kong films in the 1977–1979 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 1970s Hong Kong Landscape
1978 was the decade’s peak output year for Hong Kong — 22 titles released, including The Boys in Company C. Bars below show how the 1970s stacked up year by year (122 total).
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 21 other Hong Kong films in 1978.
The 90th Hong Kong title from Hong Kong we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our Hong Kong catalog contains 836 titles in total (828 films).
Audience Engagement
65 audience reviews — more than 74% of Hong Kong films in our index.
Review volume (74th percentile) outruns trending popularity (39th) — a durable title with sustained audience attention.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on The Boys in Company C, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- basic training · 1
- football (soccer) · 18
- army · 17
- vietnam war · 11
- vietnam · 11
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #283 of 836 Hong Kong films indexed here (66th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.3 points above the Hong Kong average of 6.3/10.
Among Hong Kong War productions specifically: #6 of 13 (top 46%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | Hong Kong |
|---|---|
| All Production Countries | Hong Kong, Philippines, United States of America |
| Original Language | En |
| Production Companies | Columbia Pictures, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Good Times Films S.A. |
| Runtime | 2h 5m |
| Release Date | February 2, 1978 |
| IMDb | tt0077270 |