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I'm
Your Birthday Cake |
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Year: |
1995 |
Chingmy Yau |
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Director: |
Raymond
Yip Wai-Man |
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Producer: |
Wong
Jing |
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Cast: |
Chingmy
Yau Suk-Ching, Dior
Cheng Yee-Kin (Ekin Cheng), Kong
Wah, Michael
Wong Mun-Tak, Amanda
Lee Wai-Man, Chan
Fai-Hung |
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The
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Sleazy
and politically incorrect, but still somewhat watchable. Chingmy
Yau turns in a sexy, likable performance. |
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Review
by Kozo: |
Nice girl Cher (Chingmy Yau) gets an Indecent Proposal.
Water Lam (Dior Cheng) has a problem: his brother (Kong Yup)
is paralyzed from the waist down, and has been for years.
Suddenly, the sight of Cher gives him the first erection he's
had since the accident. Water is desperate to bring back his
brother's prowess, so he propositions Cher to sleep with his
brother. Cher needs $30 million for a family crisis so Water
offers to pay her that amount.
After the obligatory moral issues,
it comes out that Cher knows zip about being a sex kitten
(What? Chingmy Yau doesn't know how to act sexy?). Water decides
to find her a teacher: Michael Wong as Honey Chan, flaming
homosexual and Henry Higgins to Cher’s Eliza Doolittle. All
seems to be going well until Water falls for Cher. Then, Cher
falls for Water. Honey spars constantly with Chingmy’s pal
Sorry (Amanda Lee), leading to a subplot that you can see
an ocean away.
Politically correct, this movie most
definitely is not. Aside from the usual HK sexual politics
decreeing that all homosexuals need to be "straightened"
out, a large portion of the film is spent leering at Chingmy
Yau's nubile form. Amazingly, this movie is actually decent,
and has an identifiable understated romantic tone. Still it
is frequently sleazy, not to mention un-PC and even
offensive. However, you could still do worse than this movie.
(Kozo 1996) |
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Availability: |
DVD
(Hong Kong)
Region 0 NTSC
Mei Ah Laser
Widescreen
Cantonese and Mandarin Language Tracks
English and Chinese subtitles |
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image courtesy
of the Hong Kong Film Critics Society
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