The film tells the semi-autobiographical exploits of a young brother and sister who spend a pivotal summer in the country with their grandparents while their mother is in critical care in the hospital.
[1] A young boy, Tung-Tung and his sister spend a summer vacation at their grandparents' house in the country while their mother recuperates from an illness; they while away the hours climbing trees, swimming in a stream, searching for missing cattle, and coming uneasily to grips with the enigmatic and sometimes threatening realities of adult life.
[2] In his review for The New York Times, Vincent Canby wrote: "The film is easy to watch.
It's nicely acted by Wang Chi-kwang as Tung-Tung and Koo Chuen as the grandpa.
[4] The Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa cited A Summer at Grandpa's as one of his 100 favorite films.