“Let’s Eat” and “The Kid From The Big Apple” Officially Selected For Osaka Asian Film Festival!

EARLY arrivals for Ola Bola at the cinemas may have seen a distinctly amusing trailer for a Chinese movie about the restaurant business.

Featuring family feuds, mouth-watering foods and eye-popping cleavage, Let’s Eat seemed to have a distinctly Malaysian look even if it was directed by Hong Kong’s Chapman To.

Turns out that the film was indeed shot on our shores — Let’s Eat is an RM5,250,000 joint production between Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia. Led by Chapman To and Hong Kong actress Aimee Chan, the film put Malaysian actors Tommy Kuan and Daphne Low alongside some of Southeast Asia’s top comedic actors.

It gives us great pleasure to inform readers that Let’s Eat has been officially selected for the Competition section of the 11th Osaka Asian Film Festival. The film will have it’s international premiere at the festival, weeks after an early Chinese New Year release in selected territories.

Other entries in the list of 13 titles include Singaporean director Royston Tan‘s 3688 as well as three films each (!) from the Philippines and Hong Kong.

Also worth pointing out is the inclusion of Jess Teong‘s The Kid From The Big Apple in the festival’s New Action! Southeast Asia special screening programme, which also carries Joko Anwar‘s A Copy of My Mind. We last wrote about Jess Teong’s film when it took home major awards in New York last month.

Let’s Eat was released locally last Thursday and is currently playing in all good cinemas near you, while The Kid From The Big Apple will be released on 10 March 2016!