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1400, comprising four stories about love in a hotel, stars Desmond Tan and Ya Hui.

For a movie with a “micro” budget, the drama 1400 surprisingly boasts a cast that is none too shabby. The line-up includes MediaCorp stars Desmond Tan, one of the heavily promoted young actors dubbed the “8 Dukes”, and Ya Hui, who won her first Star Award for Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes last year.

But some local movie buffs will turn their eyes to the return of Angeline Yap and Will Lawandi, both of whom had starred in last year’s local erotic thriller Lang Tong, which could be the most sexually explicit Singaporean film to date.

1400’s director Derrick Lui, who cast Yap after auditioning her, says: “Unlike Lang Tong, I’m not selling sex, I’m selling love. I didn’t need to see her body, all I needed to see was whether she could act.”

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