Filmart: Aaron Kwok to Star in Comedy-Drama ‘IOU’

Hong Kong leading guy Aaron Kwok will next star in IOU, a heartfelt drama directed by Steven Zhang Zhonghua. The movie reunites Kwok with Hong Kong manufacturer Julia Chu, with whom he collaborated for Port of Call (2015) and Where the Wind Blows ( 2022 ). Circulation Workshop is going shopping the movie to worldwide purchasers today at Hong Kong’s Filmart material market.

Set versus the background of current, real-life fundraising frauds in China, IOU is a comedy-drama “that spoofs the selfishness of an interest-driven society,” according to the manufacturers..

Kwok plays a desperate guy having a hard time in between survival and generosity. Attempting to repay his own financial obligations by all ways essential, Kwok’s character, a male called Wu, obstructs 2 brother or sisters inside their rural Shaanxi home, intending to require their dad to repay the cash Wu lent him. Regardless of triggering him unlimited headaches, the brother or sisters’ simple-mindedness and empathy change Wu, leading him to make an unanticipated option on Chinese New Year’s Eve.

Very first talked about in 2020, the task was chosen as a Top-30 finalist at the 33rd Golden Rooster Movie Job Market and took part in the 20th Hong Kong International Movie Celebration’s market program. Shooting started earlier in March with a production spending plan around $3 million.

Zhang is best understood for Hearty Tomato (2012 ), chosen for the 28th Warsaw International Movie Celebration, The Home in the Tree (2019 ), chosen for finest Kid’s Movie of 32nd Golden Rooster Award, and Home by the River (2025 ), which just recently completed at Poland’s Kinolub Movie Celebration.

Other titles on Circulation Workshop’s sales slate at Filmart this year consist of Juno Mak’s long-gestating Sons of the Neon Night; Operation Hadal, from action hitmaker Dante Lam; Little Red Sugary Food, directed by Vincent Chow; and Penguin Woman, helmed by Taiwanese first-timer Yuyu Yang.

Filmart runs March 17-20 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibit Centre.