Hot Summer Days

Marking the first collaboration between Chinese cinema and the leading Hollywood production company, 20th Century Fox, Hot Summer Days is a captivating romantic saga that will transport you to a world that can only exist in dreams.

The movie is set in a hot summer season, where everyone, right from a high profile chef to an innocent village boy, seems to be falling hopelessly in love. The movie immaculately links each of these romantic interludes with a thin string, forming a melodramatic rhapsody of love. The first victim of this ‘romantic fever’ is a single father who lives in Hong Kong, and is recovering from a fatal heatstroke. After years of loneliness, he finds the love of his life in a beautiful young pianist, who has now turned into a foot masseur. Even though they live miles apart, they make good use of technology to pave their ways to each other’s hearts. Elsewhere, a writer for food magazines finds herself hopelessly falling in love with a celebrated Sushi chef, and tries hard to convince him that they are meant to be together. A father-son duo embarks on a romantic escapade on different paths. The son, who repairs air-conditioners, falls for an adventurous motorcyclist, while the father pursues gorgeous beach babes, irking them with his raunchy comments. In what is without a doubt the most heartrending romance of them all, a young villager sets his eyes on a local girl who works at a factory.

When she does not return his affections, he spends 100 days standing outside her office at noon, enduring the blazing sun to prove his love for her. Watch the movie to see how these stories interconnect with the help of an eccentric photographer, who along with his assistant sets off in search of a model whom he believes has cursed him to be blind.