A depressed, obese woman tries to lose weight in order to win back her ex-boyfriend with the help of a fellow Hong Konger whom she met in Japan.
Practical Effects
The fat suits are genuinely impressive pre-CGI craftsmanship.
Acting
Sammi Cheng commits fully to physical comedy under 200 pounds of latex.
Direction
Johnnie To brings unexpected visual coherence to pure silliness.
Director
Wai Ka-Fai
Andy Lau
Fatso
Sammi Cheng Sau-Man
Mini
Rikiya Kurokawa
Kurokawa
Asuka Higuchi
Kudo
Wong Tin-Lam
Fatso's Friend
Lam Suet
Bun Man
Cheung Chi-Ping
Fatso's Friend
Hung Wai-Leung
Fatso's Friend
Wong Mei-Fan
Radio DJ
Po Ming-Nam
Sato Keiji
Boxing Customer (uncredited)
Lu Ching-Ting
Cocaine Ken (uncredited)
Cheng Kam-Cheong
Fatso's Friend (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Andy Lau reportedly wore the fat suit for 12-hour shoots in summer heat, losing significant weight from sweat alone.
This was part of a late-90s/early-2000s Hong Kong trend of 'body transformation' rom-coms that rarely aged well; Sammi Cheng herself starred in multiple variants.
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