Directed by:
Edmond Ho-cheung PangCinematography:
Jason KwanCast:
Miriam Yeung, Shawn Yue, Tien-you Chui, Jo Kuk Cho-lam, Yee-sum Luk, Singh Hartihan Bitto, Frank Zong-ji Liu, Felix Lok, Wai-cheuk Szeto, Charmaine Fong (more)Plots(1)
Since 2007, the Hong Kong health authority has implemented an anti-smoking law that bans people from smoking in all indoor areas, including work places, public places, restaurants, and karaoke lounges. This pushes office smokers to take their cigarette breaks outdoors in the street. Smokers from the same building are gradually bonded and form a new community known as "Hot Pot Pack" as they would gather around a trash bin with an ashtray, sharing small talk with raunchy jokes like they are at a hot pot dinner. Jimmy (Shawn Yue) is a mild mannered, sneaky and smooth advertising executive in his twenties. While smoking in an alley packed with booming loudmouth co-workers and sharing explicit gossip and horror stories, he befriends a misfit cosmetics salesgirl Cherie (Miriam Yeung) who also likes to light up. And awkward romance soon blossoms amidst the anxiety of their nicotine rush. As they become more attracted to each other they also find themselves moving farther away from their regular "hot pot pack" into their own private alley, where their conversations suggest more emotional depths, covering the collision of reality and delightfully trivial matters of the bizarre people around them. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Miriam Yeung
China
Best movies:
Love in the Buff (2012)
Love In a Puff (2010)
The Founding of a Party (2011)
Shawn Yue
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Infernal Affairs (2002)
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Tien-you Chui
China
Best movies:
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Love In a Puff (2010)
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Jo Kuk Cho-lam
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love in the Buff (2012)
Mad Detective (2007)
Love In a Puff (2010)
Yee-sum Luk
Best movies:
Love In a Puff (2010)
Singh Hartihan Bitto
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Unbeatable (2013)
Mad Detective (2007)
Love In a Puff (2010)
Frank Zong-ji Liu
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Eye in the Sky (2007)
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The Mission (1999)
Felix Lok
Hong Kong
Best movies:
The Big Heat (1988)
Flaming Brothers (1987)
Overheard (2009)
Wai-cheuk Szeto
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love in the Buff (2012)
Love In a Puff (2010)
You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
Charmaine Fong
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love In a Puff (2010)
Mad World (2016)
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Matt Chow
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Overheard (2009)
Love In a Puff (2010)
You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
Isabel Chan
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love in the Buff (2012)
Fly Me to Polaris (1999)
Love In a Puff (2010)
June Lam
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love in the Buff (2012)
The Beast Stalker (2008)
Love In a Puff (2010)
Fei-lam Miu
Best movies:
2046 (2004)
Love In a Puff (2010)
You Shoot, I Shoot (2001)
Kenny Wong
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Hard Boiled (1992)
New Police Story (2004)
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (2024)
Ho-bong Leung
Best movies:
Love In a Puff (2010)
Firestorm (2013)
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Eric Hoi-yan Chan
Best movies:
Unbeatable (2013)
Paris Holiday (2015)
Love In a Puff (2010)
Bryant Mak
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love In a Puff (2010)
Mad World (2016)
Three (2016)
Yiu-Sing Lam
Hong Kong
Best movies:
Love In a Puff (2010)
Dream Home (2010)
Benny Lau
Hong Kong
Best movies:
A Simple Life (2011)
Exodus (2007)
Love In a Puff (2010)