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Mee Pok Man is a Singapourien film of genre Drama directed by Eric Khoo with Michelle Goh
Mee Pok Man (1996)
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Add to a movie listMee Pok Man is a 1995 Singaporean film directed by Eric Khoo. The film is Eric Khoo's debut feature, after making award-winning short films for years. It was entered into the 19th Moscow International Film Festival.
The film is a black comedy starring Joe Ng as the male protagonist Johnny, a Chinese seller of noodles (mee pok), and Michelle Goh as the prostitute Bunny. The film was given an "R(A)" rating in Singapore, restricting the movie audience to adults aged 21 and above, but after the change in censorship ratings in 2004, it was re-rated "M18" (aged 18 and above).
The film's story was inspired by a story by Damien Sin, "One Last Cold Kiss", that appeared in Classic Singapore Horror Stories: Book 2 (1994). Khoo was supposed to illustrated the story about a mortuary attendant who falls in love with a fresh corpse, brings it back home, and has a relationship with it.
The soundtrack album was released under BMG and featured the film score by Kevin Mathews and music by Singaporean acts including Padres (a band fronted by Joe Ng, the film's male lead actor) Opposition Party, Livonia, Etc and Sugarflies.
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