Wing is a devoted fan of popular singer Rose who is involved in a topsy-turvy relationship with her charismatic producer Sam. Willing to go to any length to meet Rose, the willowy Wing disguises herself as a man, and with a twist of fate is chosen to be the next budding star for the record company.
Leslie Cheung Kwok-Wing Anita Yuen Wing-Yee Carina Lau Kar-Ling Eric Tsang Chi-Wai Jordan Chan Siu-Chun Jerry Lamb Hiu-Fung Law Kar-Ying Cheung Suet-Ling Lawrence Cheng Tan-Shui Clarence Hui Nelson Cheung Hok-Yun Lee Hiu-Tung Tsui Kwok-Keung Joe Cheung Tung-Cho Derek Lee Ho-Lam Mantic Yiu Jacob Cheung Ng Chin-Yan Matthew Tang Hon-Keung Chan Wai-Lung Chen Yong-Liang Liu Fung-Ping Irene May Lam Lai-Mei Leung Yiu-Hei Yue Tin-Lok Tsang Ho-Yin Yu Dai-Keung Fung Ka-Leung Show All…
Gam chi yuk sip, He Is A Woman She Is A Man, He's a Woman, She's a Man, 金枝玉叶, 금지옥엽
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Imagine if anytime someone asks if you're gay there is an extremely shaky camera zooming right up to your face awaiting the answer
unfortunately for all parties involved, bisexuality was invented three yrs later, when leslie chung came out.
an interesting movie to think about rather than fully enjoy, though the first half is genuinely one of the funniest things i’ve ever seen. someone needs to write a definite text on this...gender, sexuality....it’s all here and it’s all interesting
Weirdly prescient in its depiction of the culture of celebrity worship (the entirety of Antiviral is contained in a 30 second aside). Especially prophetic is an American Idol style audition montage.
Impressively progressive given it's a Hong Kong comedy from the early 90s. I guess Wong Jing must not have been involved.
Leslie Cheung was the best.
that scene where a man asking the kid if she sold a Andy Lau wearing red sleeveless suit photo and the girl asked: "dry or wet hair?" is peak fan culture
This film is known for probably one of the most memorable panorama sequences in the golden age of HK cinema, Leslie Cheung sang “追 Chase” to 袁詠儀 Anita Yuen, who picked up the successful role as the innocent and amiable “girl next door” character 阿敏 Min in the 1993 film 新不了情 C’est la Vie, Mon Cherie (Derek Yee) vis-a-vis the leading actor’s girlfriend as a “material girl” here. Yuen is an aficionado of the screen couple 顧家明 Sam Khoo and 玫瑰 Rose, which are archetypical characters in 亦舒 Yishu’s 《玫瑰的故事》Story of Rose (1981) and 《家明與玫瑰》Ka Ming and Rose (1982) - both classics of HK popular culture (middlebrow literature) in the 90s.
The most ingenious thing about this film is that…
Leslie Chung has a bisexual crisis for 107 minutes and it’s funny as hell
life gets gayer as they go along
this is a very funny, very genre gender bender romcom with a few interesting wrinkles re: gender (as all things in this mode do, here especially with its proximity to literalized performance and commodification and grooming), sexuality (leslie cheung would come out after this and is a writer hm), fandom and industry for the first hour. after the hour mark, though, the humor dies and is replaced with this fascinating and deeply uncomfortable drama that refuses to stop being a romcom.
it might be a too many cooks in the kitchen sitch; it feels like the film is pulled in all sorts of directions at all times. is it about homophobia and acceptance…
that shaky cam zoom in on sam's face after he gets asked if he's gay while a saxophone goes crazy in the background is pure gold. poetic cinema. also this is probably one of the worst film title translations i have ever seen.
“Silly, not all gays are born knowing their situation, and even some gays aren't even born gay; they gradually find life gets gayer as it goes along.”
whats a gender
Sometimes what the world needs is a romantic comedy targeted squarely at the fantasies of gay tweens.
A hilarious, star-studded comedy of mistaken identities that smashes any intolerance, traditions and preconceived notions about gender that stand in the way of just loving whom you love.
The central trio of Leslie Cheung, Anita Yuen and Carina Lau is stellar, playing the music producer, the fan and the singer respectively and the film is a sheer delight full of laughs, music and charming interactions.
This film also came out three years before Leslie (ha!) and it feels like another role where some of the most inner emotions and the fear of a lack of societal acceptance (or worse, backlash) feel intensely personal. Yet he still has a ball too of course and it's a joy to see him playing off Carina and Anita.
If you're curious about a surprisingly progressive Hong Kong comedy from the 90s, this is the one.
