This is a film that began with a decent plot. Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him. The problem with this film is it becomes so sleazy. There is nudity (not Ms. Yip), violence and forcible rape. I'm sure this kind of stuff happened all the time then, but you get the feeling everyone is so slimy in this film. Amy Yip is beautiful and voluptuous and maybe this kind of film is mostly what she was offered, but I can't recommend it. One film you should see if you want to see tasteful erotica is the highly successful "Sex And Zen". Don't watch this, you'll feel gross by the time its over.
2 Reviews
tragic story about trafficking between China and HK
imdb-1443222 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
This is a sad story about a young mother that looses her husband in a fight as a result of someone trying to rape her.
She then have to give up her son for adoption with the help of the arresting police officer.
She then gets "Trafficked" and forced into prostitution and the film shows the evil of trafficking and how bad the girls are treated, but it also show the courage of the common people and how you can find help from someone you didn't expect and how she as a mother tries to find her child.
This movie gives an interesting in-sight into the Asian culture for me as a gaijin and the story about illegal trafficking and forced prostitution from 1992 must have been "really new" at the time, it's not until years later that it have been talked about in northern Europe.
The movie contains some graphic violence and some graphic sex combined with a few moments of classic Hong Kong Action in a way like you never see in a western/Hollywood production.
I liked it a lot, but my DVD release had both Cantonese and English subtitles (at the same time, and quiet often the English subtitles where white text on white backgrounds or just to long to fit on the screen) which made it kind to hard to keep up, as well as the fact that the subtitles where running at very high speed to cover all the dialog. But you get used to that if you see a few "real" Asian movies. And no offense, but at certain times, the subtitles do get hilarious! I do would like to recommend this movie to everyone seeking something outside the plain Hollywood-stuff. This movie has a plot that makes you think, and that is a good thing!
She then have to give up her son for adoption with the help of the arresting police officer.
She then gets "Trafficked" and forced into prostitution and the film shows the evil of trafficking and how bad the girls are treated, but it also show the courage of the common people and how you can find help from someone you didn't expect and how she as a mother tries to find her child.
This movie gives an interesting in-sight into the Asian culture for me as a gaijin and the story about illegal trafficking and forced prostitution from 1992 must have been "really new" at the time, it's not until years later that it have been talked about in northern Europe.
The movie contains some graphic violence and some graphic sex combined with a few moments of classic Hong Kong Action in a way like you never see in a western/Hollywood production.
I liked it a lot, but my DVD release had both Cantonese and English subtitles (at the same time, and quiet often the English subtitles where white text on white backgrounds or just to long to fit on the screen) which made it kind to hard to keep up, as well as the fact that the subtitles where running at very high speed to cover all the dialog. But you get used to that if you see a few "real" Asian movies. And no offense, but at certain times, the subtitles do get hilarious! I do would like to recommend this movie to everyone seeking something outside the plain Hollywood-stuff. This movie has a plot that makes you think, and that is a good thing!
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