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Love on a Diet (2001)
Sau sun nam nui (original title)

94 min  -  Comedy | Romance   -  21 June 2001 (Hong Kong)
6.7
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Sammi Cheng plays Mimi Mo, a young exchange student to Japan who met and fell in love with a budding pianist... See full summary »

Directors:

Johnnie To, Ka-Fai Wai

Writers:

Ka-Fai Wai, Nai-Hoi Yau

Stars:

Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng and Rikiya Kurokawa
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Cast

Credited cast:
Andy Lau ...
Sammi Cheng ...
Rikiya Kurokawa Rikiya Kurokawa ...
Kurokawa
Asuka Higuchi Asuka Higuchi ...
Kudo
Tian-lin Wang Tian-lin Wang ...
Fatso's Friend (as Wong Tin Lam)
Suet Lam Suet Lam ...
Bun Man (as Lam Suet)
Chi Ping Cheung Chi Ping Cheung
Wai Leung Hung Wai Leung Hung ...
Fatso's Friend (as Hung Wai Leung)
Mei Fan Wong Mei Fan Wong
Ming Nam Po Ming Nam Po
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Gam-cheong Cheung Gam-cheong Cheung
Keiji Sato Keiji Sato
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Storyline

Sammi Cheng plays Mimi Mo, a young exchange student to Japan who met and fell in love with a budding pianist, Kurokawa, played by Rikiya Kurokawa. Kurokawa eventually leaves to study music in the USA and returns to Japan as a famous musician. Meanwhile, Mimi has dealt with her depression by eating and weights over 300lbs and Kurokawa doesn't recognize her. Mimi eventually meets Fatty (Andy Lau) who helps her lose the weight so she can fulfill her promise of meeting Kurokawa made 10 years earlier. But then they fall in love..... Written by Aya  

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Plot Keywords:

Fat Suit

Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Country:

Hong Kong | Japan

Language:

Cantonese | Japanese | English

Release Date:

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Box Office

Gross:

HKD 9,020,000 (Hong Kong) (12 July 2001)
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Company Credits

Production Co:

China Star Entertainment, One Hundred Years of Film Company, Milky Way Image Company See more »
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Goofs

Revealing mistakes: During the scene outside on the street in which Fatty runs from Fatso and clings to a light pole, the back flap of her fat suit neck prosthetics has come out and is clearly visible above her shirt collar. As Andy Lau's Fatso chases her, he reaches out to try to hide it from the camera. See more »

Quotes

Fatso: This is the problem. How can she lose 200 pounds in six months?
Cocaine Ken: I know!
Fatso: Don't say drugs, Cocaine Ken.
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Connections

Referenced in All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009) See more »

Soundtracks

"ZHONG SHEN MEI LI (Forever Beautiful)"
Performed by Sammi Cheng
Lyrics by Lin Xi
OP: Hilarious Productions Ltd.
Administated by EMI Music Publishing H.K. and Warner/Chappel Music H.K. Ltd. See more »