Fat Buddies
Traditional Chinese胖子行動隊
Simplified Chinese胖子行动队
Directed byBao Bei'er
Produced byAbe Kwong Man-Wai
Peggy Lee
StarringBao Bei'er
Wen Zhang
Clara Lee
Xu Juncong
Production
companies
Beijing Jujiao Film Cultural Media Limited Company
Haining Hema Film Industry Company Limited
Release date
  • 30 September 2018 (2018-09-30) (China)
Running time
109 minutes
CountryChina
LanguageMandarin

Fat Buddies (Chinese: 胖子行动队) is a 2018 Chinese action comedy film directed by Bao Bei'er and produced by Abe Kwong Man-Wai and Peggy Lee.[1][2] The film stars Bao Bei'er, Wen Zhang, Clara Lee, and Xu Juncong. It was scheduled for release on September 30, 2018, in China. The film is the directorial debut from popular Chinese actor Bao Bei'er.

Plot

The film revolves around a pair of big-boned, bumbling cops who find themselves at the heart of a drug trafficking case. The agent “J” (Zhang Wen) was shot in the head during an A-level mission, causing damage to the intracranial hypothalamus. During the period of rehabilitating, J gradually became an obese man of three hundred pounds and suffered from severe narcolepsy, but J still considered himself a competent agent. Finally, J received the task again and went to Japan to retrieve confidential documents. After the file was obtained, J arbitrarily opened the file and decided to continue the task of hiding the organization for the organization, but he fainted in the izakaya. (The following text was removed due to improper English language translation)

Cast

  • Bao Bei'er as Hao Yingjun ("Handsome Hao"), a Sino-Japanese big-boned security guard at Northern Kanto General Hospital who helps Agent J in the mission to retrieve an important document.
  • Wen Zhang as Jia Jengjun/Agent J, a superspy that is considered the best in the world and is sent to Japan to retrieve an important document.
  • Clara Lee as Kin Shiyurin, the hot and young Japanese wife of Handsome Hao who works as a nurse at the same hospital as him.
  • Xu Juncong as F, one of top enforcers of Ma Tianyou
  • Zeng Yijun as K, one of top enforcers of Ma Tianyou
  • Zhang Menglu
  • Guo Jingfei as Ma Tianyou, a powerful magnate and philanthropist which at the same time is a dangerous big-time drug-dealer
  • Yasuaki Kurata as Northern Kanto General Hospital dean.
  • Ryu Kohata as an unnamed Yakuza boss.
  • Qi Yuwu as Qi
  • Manfred Wong
  • Song Jia
  • Li Jiaqi

Production

Fat Buddies marks Bao Bei'er's debut as director. He also stars in it.[3]

Shooting began on September 23, 2017 in Japan and then took place in Arxan and Beijing.[4] The film wrapped on December 19 of that same year.

Release

The film premiered in Beijing on September 26, 2018.[5]

On June 26, 2018, the producers announced that the film was scheduled for release on September 30, 2018.[6]

References

  1. ↑ PHIL MILLS (27 June 2018). "Trailer: 'Fat Buddies'". fareastfilms. Retrieved 27 September 2018.
  2. ↑ 包贝尔《胖子行动队》现身合肥 辣目洋子被赞. china.com (in Chinese). 3 September 2018.
  3. ↑ 包贝尔携导演处女作亮相 曝胖子特效妆吓坏女儿. 163.com (in Chinese). 25 June 2018.
  4. ↑ 《胖子行动队》圆满杀青 导演包贝尔被恶搞. sina (in Chinese). 20 December 2017.
  5. ↑ 《胖子行动队》首映 包贝尔、文章化特效妆演胖子. sina (in Chinese). 2018-09-27.
  6. ↑ 《胖子行动队》定档9.30 曝预告海报. Xinhuanet (in Chinese). 26 June 2018. Archived from the original on July 4, 2018.
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