‘Beef’ Actor Hong Dao Leads Vietnam Dark Comedy ‘A “Good” Best Luck’

Vietnam’s Mockingbird Pictures is heading to the Beijing International Film Festival with “A ‘Good’ Best Luck,” a darkish comedy drama drawing on local non secular folks traditions.

Directed by Khương Ngọc and Tấn Hoàng Thông for VIC.N Studio, the movie facilities on Tâm, a younger supply employee whose coronary heart condition from delivery leads him into an odd folks ritual called “lying in a coffin” – a observe held to remodel one’s future by way of the symbolic act of demise. Dương Hải Yến serves as govt producer.

The solid is led by Hồng Đào, considered one of Vietnam’s most widely recognised performers, whose flip in Netflix’s “Beef” introduced her to a global viewers. She also appeared in “Mai” (2023), among the greatest box workplace attracts in Vietnamese movie historical past. Khương Ngọc and Hồng Đào have labored together before, on dramas “The Real Sister” and “My Little Grandma.” Võ Tấn Phát performs the lead position.

“A ‘Good’ Best Luck is a deeply local story, but one that speaks to universal questions about fate and responsibility,” said Dương Hải Yến. “It reflects how people turn to belief systems when pushed to the edge and how real change ultimately comes from within.”

Mockingbird Pictures holds worldwide distribution rights and is pursuing each theatrical openings across the area and offers with worldwide streaming platforms. Talks with potential patrons are ongoing.

“As global audiences continue to embrace authentic, culturally rooted storytelling, we see ‘A “Good” Best Luck’ as a movie with strong potential to journey and join with audiences past Vietnam,” said Phong Duong, enterprise director of Mockingbird Pictures.

The movie, whose Vietnamese title is “Lên Hương,” is in its final manufacturing section and is pencilled in for a Vietnam release in the final quarter of 2026. Mockingbird plans to take the project to additional festivals and markets in the months ahead.