Happy Hotel
Happy Hotel is a 2012 Chinese comedy film directed and written by Wang Yuelun and produced by Song Guangcheng and Li Xiang. It stars Jiang Wu as Qian Shiqiang, the vice-president of a company, along with Ning Jing as his wife. The film premiered in China on August 2, 2012. The film follows the lives of a couple and their networking at a five-star hotel named Lotte Hotel.
Plot
Meng Jinghua has never been pregnant after her marriage with Qian Shiqiang. She has quietly contacts a Korean doctor to come to Lotte Hotel for treatment. That same time, Kim Tai-shun, a Korean creditor, comes to China for debt, he is arranged to Lotte Hotel by his debtor President Xi. When he meets Meng Jinghua, he thinks that Meng is a masseuse. On the other hand, Meng Jinghua thinks that Kim Tai-shun is the Korean doctor and invites him to her room. When Kim Tai-shun is flirting with Meng Jinghua, he is battered unconscious by Meng. Meng flees the hotel with deeply fearful, and asks her husband Qian Shiqiang for help. But her husband is caught in bed with his lover Katy by President Xi. President Xi demands Qian Shiqiang to give him one million yuan as hush money. Qian Shiqiang decides to borrow money from his friends to solve this trouble. The couple meets in the elevator.Cast
- Jiang Wu as Qian Shiqiang, the vice-president of a company.
- Ning Jing as Meng Jinghua, the president of a company.
- Jeon Kyeong-ho as Kim Tai-shun
- Meng Tongdi as Katy, Qian Shiqiang's lover.
- Liu Hua as President Liu
- Yao Lu as President Xi
- Lam Chi-chung as Du Dachang
- Du Haitao as Liang Wen
- Huang Yi as Meng Jinghua's close friend
- Cheung Tat-ming as Han Chenghuan
- Linda Liao as Xing Guang'ai
Production
The film pays homage to Tony Basgallop's Hotel Babylon.