Mee Pok Man
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| Directed by | Eric Khoo |
| Written by | Eric Khoo |
| Produced by | Jacqueline Khoo |
| Starring | Joe Ng, Michelle Goh, Lim Kay Tong, David Brazil |
| Music by | John David Kompa |
| Distributed by | Zhao Wei Films |
Release date | 1995 |
Running time | 105 minutes. |
| Country | Singapore |
| Languages | Cantonese, Mandarin, Hokkien, English |
| Budget | $243,000 |
Mee Pok Man is a 1995 film by Eric Khoo. The film is a black comedy starring Joe Ng as the male protagonist Johnny, and Michelle Goh as the prostitute Bunny. The film was given an "R(A)" rating in Singapore, restricting the movie audience to adults only, but after the change in censorship ratings, it was rated "M18" since 2005 (Restricted to 18 and above). Themes of necrophilia present in the second half of the film gave this film its mature rating.
Synopsis
Johnny (Joe Ng) is a lonely man who runs a Mee Pok stall. Although he isn't very intelligent, he is hardworking and yearns for romance. One day, Bunny (Michelle Goh) came to his stall and Johnny fell in love with her at first sight. Bunny however doesn't seem to like him, preferring the company of expatriate white men, and disgruntled men around called her a Sarong Party Girl. She and Johnny became friends though. Johnny realized her sense of emptiness in life due to her lowly vocation and vowed to help her find another job. Bunny instead counted on a policeman named Ah Lim (Lim Kay Tong) to save her from her current occupation, but the man instead betrayed her to the pimps.
Bunny decided to be on the run after the pimps threatened to sent her to Thailand to live with the transvestites. Johnny offered to assist her to flee, an offer which touched her. She and Johnny were about to leave when a car, driven by one of Bunny's pimps, knocked her down. No one else was around, so Johnny carried her back to his home where he tried to take care of her. Without proper medical treatment, Bunny died and Johnny became depressed. The devoted young man still continued to care for her even when her corpse began to rot.
Johnny started praying to Sun Wukong, the deity he worshiped. Johnny took great lengths to hiding Bunny's corpse so much so that even his neighbours and senile parents were not alerted. After three weeks of hiding the corpse, Johnny died as well due to the disease he caught from the flies feeding on the corpse. Unknown to the two dead people, Johnny's house has a magical talisman given from a taoist priest, which resurrects the two into a pair of sentient zombies. The two finally got together after death as an undead couple, with no small thanks to the powers of the Monkey God.
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