It’s A Great Great World is set in Singapore’s legendary amusement park Great World, which was also affectionately known in Hokkien as Tua Seh Kai or 大世界. Spanning the 1940s to the present day, the film tells the stories of a multitude of characters who lived, worked, played, sang, danced and fell in love in Great World.
Production
Painstaking recreation of 1940s-60s Great World Amusement Park
Acting
Nancy Sit's devastating turn as elderly Mrs Tan
Writing
Interwoven timelines that reward patient viewers
Director
Kelvin Tong
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Great World was one of Singapore's 'Big Three' amusement parks alongside New World and Gay World, all demolished by the 1980s for urban development.
Director Kelvin Tong's own grandmother worked at Great World, and the film originated from her stories. The mahjong scene's Hokkien dialogue is verbatim from his family recordings.
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