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Mee Pok Man

Name: Mee Pok Man
Released: 1995

1995

A painfully shy noodle-stall owner nurses a hopeless love for a prostitute, and when fate throws them together after an accident, his devotion curdles into something disturbing. Eric Khoo's grim, groundbreaking debut.

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Part of 10 Essential Singaporean Films

This film is stop 4 of 10 in the hand-ranked native-cinema route through Singapore. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

Watching this film stamps Singapore in the 196 country film challenge.