Love on a Diet

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 Love on a Diet is a 2001 Cantonese-language Comedy Romance movie starring Andy Lau, Sammi Cheng, Rikiya Kurokawa, Asuka Higuchi, Tian-lin Wang, Suet Lam and Keiji Sato. One Hundred Years of Film in association with Milkyway Image. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai. Love on a Diet is written by Wai Ka-fai and Yau Nai-hoi and it is directed by Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai. China Star Entertainment Group acquired the distribution rights for the film. Love on a Diet was released on 5th July 2001 in Cantonese,Japanese and English languages and takes a screen time of 95 minutes. The movie made a box office gross of $40 million. Cinematography was done by Cheng Siu-Keung and editing by Law Wing-cheung and Wong Wing-ming. The music was composed by Cacine Wong.
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