A Nail Clipper Romance

A Nail Clipper Romance (2017)

指甲刀人魔

After being released from hospital after a surfing accident, Sean meets a girl at a party and falls in love. She draws him into her strange world and confesses that she follows an unusual diet: she only eats... nail clippers! Sean loses his head and decides to help her realize her dream of opening a bar for other nail-clipper eaters.

Date of release
2017-04-14
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 40m
Genres
Comedy, Romance, Drama
Director
Jason Kwan

Casting

Interesting facts

A Nail Clipper Romance is a 2017 fantasy romance film directed by Jason Kwan in his directorial debut. The film is a co-production between China and Hong Kong and is adapted from a novella of the same name by Pang Ho-cheung, who also serves as the producer. Starring Zhou Dongyu and Joseph Chang, the story revolves around a recently broken-up man (Chang) who meets and falls in love with a girl claiming to be a monster that feeds on nail clippers (Zhou).

Production

In 2007, Pang Ho-cheung adapted all seven novellas from his short story collection Trivial Matters into an anthology film of the same name, serving as the producer. Pang found one of the novellas, A Nail Clipper Romance, could not be fully represented within the film's 30-minute segment limit, so he decided to exclude it from the adaptation and sought other opportunities to bring it to the screen.

The project was officially announced in January 2014, and was presented at the Asia Film Financing Forum in March 2014, with Kwan announced as the director and Subi Liang as co-producer, raising a production budget of HK$4.9 million, including HK$3 million from Making Film Productions. Bravo Pictures acquired the distribution rights in May 2015.

Principal photography took place in late 2014, with the entire shoot taking place on Oahu, Hawaii, primarily around Honolulu. Kwan noted that he chose to film in Hawaii because of its large Chinese population, yet very few Chinese-language films had been made there before, describing the decision as "a refreshing experience" for the audience.

The film featured Richie Jen's 1998 single "A Sad Pacific" as its theme song, which was rearranged and covered by Taiwanese singer Jiro Wang. Aska Yang's song "Onion" was also included in the film.

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