The movie tells the story of three brothers who open a hot pot restaurant and accidentally dig up a bank vault while expanding their store, thus starting a "shocking case".
"Hot Pot Hero" is a drama film produced by Chen Guofu, written and directed by Yang Qing, and starring Chen Kun, Bai Baihe, Qin Hao and Yu Entai.
In Chongqing, a city full of bomb shelters, three buddies who have been together since junior high school open a hot pot restaurant called "Old Classmate Cave Hot Pot".
Because of the poor management, a few people can only transfer the store to pay off the debt. In order to store can "sell a good price", three people played the "expansion of the front" idea, digging into the hole.
Unexpectedly, in the expansion project but chiseled the bank's vault. In this way, on the verge of closure of the hot pot restaurant and bank vault only "a hole in the ground".
Looking at the piles of cash at their fingertips, in the tug-of-war of "take the money or report it", the three brothers met another female classmate - the boss wrote a love letter in junior high school, and is now working in a bank, Yu Xiaohui.
The four old classmates are reunited because of this "hole". This slightly awkward hole leads to an unexpected story.
The film was the opening film of the 40th Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) and was officially released on April 1, 2016 in China.