Story

The movie is a Vietnamese film adaptation of Takahisa Igarashi’s popular novel “Papa to Musume no Nanokakan”. As soon as it was released in December last year in Vietnam, the movie broke the box office with over 500,000 audience turning out in the first week. In Japan, the original story was made into a TV show in 2007, starring Hiroshi Tachi and Yui Aragaki. The Korean film adaptation was released in 2017, starring Yun Je-Mun and Jung So-Min.

The film’s director/producer is Ken Ochiai, whose past work includes “Uzumasa Limelight” and “Ninja the Monster”, and who wielded his megaphone as the first Japanese to direct a Vietnam-sponsored, Vietnamese-speaking all-Vietnamese-cast, in the movie “Saigon Bodyguards”. The father is played by “Vietnam’s comedy king”, Thai Hoa, who also appears in many Charlie Nguyen films (starring in “Let Hoi Decide”, and “Saigon Bodyguards”). The daughter is played by Kaity Nguyen, whose debut movie “Jailbait” (Em Chua 18) massively broke the box-office and turned her into a prominent actress overnight. In this heartful comedy, the two play a father and a daughter whose bodies have switched places, making you both laugh and cry. Director Ochiai has said that he was drawn into its universal theme of “the importance of family love” that lies in the eccentric plot. The movie has been much talked about for making Japanese story into a Vietnamese movie, but another point not to be missed is how the story was adapted to the location of Vietnam.

Notes

Hai is a creative man who, working in the largest cosmetics company in the country, has a talent for coming up with unique ideas. But his downside is that he is childish and a scatterbrain. By contrast, Chau is a serious, mature and talented role model. Following her mother’s death 7 years ago, Chau had no choice but to grow up. Growing tired of looking after her trouble-making father, she decides to study abroad. Their differences are one day changed by an accident that causes them to switch bodies with each other. This heartful family comedy will make you shake with laughter as they grow to understand one another by experiencing the unique environments of each other’s generation, while communicating, reporting on, and discussing their situations like never before as they try to keep their situation from the people around them.

Cast

Thai Hoa
Kaity Nguyen
Van Trang
Kathy Uyen
Trang Hy
Gi A

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