Hong Kong Nocturne
Session Times:
14-Aug 12:50pm
Location:
Rialto Cinemas, Newmarket
Rating: M, 123 mins
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Stars: Cheng Pei-Pei, Lily Ho Li, Chin Ping, Peter Chen Ho, Chung Kwan Chow, Tien Feng, Fang Yung Tai
Director: Umetsugu Inoue
Year: 1966
Genre: Musical
“Hong Kong is uniquely beautiful!” our heroines sing over a montage of dazzling colours, bright lights, neon signs, and stars twinkling over panoramic views of Hong Kong harbour. Hong Kong Nocturne is a raucous musical melodrama centring around three dancing sisters whose exceptional talent supports their magician father (Chung Kwan Chow). The selfish old man has little regard for his daughters and squanders their hard earned money on a young floozy who plays him for a fool. After winning a go-go dance contest, the girls ditch daddy and pursue their dreams. Sexy, eldest sister Tsui Tsui (Lily Ho Li) dreams of movie stardom, but her slimy boyfriend lures her to Japan and tries cajoling her into porno flicks. Dutiful middle daughter Chuen Chuen (Cheng Pei-Pei) sticks with dad, but when he tries to make her earn extra cash as a stripper, she settles down with kindly songwriter Chen Tze-ching (Peter Chen Ho), only to fall afoul of his snooty parents. Chuen Chuen helps send youngest sister Ting Ting (Chin Ping) to ballet school where dance dictator Mr. Yen (Tien Feng) pushes her to the point of collapse. Struggling through poverty, alcoholism, pregnancy, one tragic death, a teary reconciliation and three tales of thwarted love, the girls emerge triumphant.
Reference:
http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2648
