Art-house movie trilogies are rare beasts, and even rarer when they are unintended. “I think it was completely accidental,” says Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen of the 13-year odyssey to complete his “Growing Up” trilogy.
Art-house movie trilogies are rare beasts, and even rarer when they are unintended. “I think it was completely accidental,” says Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen of the 13-year odyssey to complete his “Growing Up” trilogy.
While Junyang falls for a girl from a well-to-do family that he meets at a BTS concert, the widowed Boon Kiat finds his own romance with Bee Hwa (Yeo Yann Yann), a Malaysian immigrant who hawks beer for a living.


While We Are All Strangers and its predecessors share no characters or plot lines, the casting of Yeo and Koh bonds all three films. Koh was the child in Ilo Ilo, Yeo his mother, before reuniting as student and teacher in Wet Season. But Chen swears he never planned it this way.
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