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Bugis Street

Venice Classics
Director:
Yonfan
Running Time:
98’
Language:
Mandarin, English
Country:
Hong Kong, Singapore
Year:
1995
Main Cast:
Hiep Thi Le, Michael Lam, Ernest Seah, Greg-O, David Knight
Screenplay:
Yonfan
Cinematographer:
Jacky Tang
Editor:
Kam Ma
Production Designer:
Ma Mun Ming
Costume Designer:
Ma Mun Ming
Music:
Chris Babida
Restoration:
Far Sun Film
Laboratory:L'Immagine Ritrovata

Synopsis

The coming-of-age comedy of the chambermaid Lian in a hotel that is inhabited by transsexuals and transvestites in Singapore during the Vietnam War. How she discovers a totally different life and love in a street full of darkness, of divine decadence and the sexes, of sailors and the rickshaw glamour, of mascara virtue. A fantasy land all her own.

Director's Statement

My intention was to make a movie about love and freedom, but I could never have imagined all the strange spices of lust, seduction, repulsion, indulgence, intoxication, infidelity, and intolerance come in with it, all the seven deadly sins. Then comes a certain kind of tenderness, friendliness, innocence and after all, some dignity from the back alleys. My intention was not to make a dangerous movie from the South Sea, but that’s what it is.

Production/Distribution

PRODUCTION: Yonfan– Far Sun Film Co Ltd
9/F Tin On Sing Commercial Building, 41-43 Graham Street
0000 – Hong Kong
Tel. +852 25462128
farsunfilm@gmail.com
http://www.yonfan.com

RESTORATION CURATED BY: Bede Cheng – L’Immagine Ritrovata
Via Riva di Reno, 72
40122 – Bologna, Italia
Tel. +39 051552541
info@ir-asia.hk
http://www.immagineritrovata.asia

LABORATORY: L’Immagine Ritrovata

WORLD SALES: Lin Zara – Far Sun Film Co Ltd
9/F Tin On Sing Commercial Building, 41-43 Graham Street
0000 – Hong Kong
Tel. +852 25462128
farsunfilm@gmail.com
http://www.yonfan.com

PRESS OFFICE: Gordon Spragg, Laurin Dietrich, Michael Arnon – WOLF Consultants
Eberswalderstr. 10
10437 – Berlin, Germany
Tel. +49 15774749724
hello@wolf-con.com


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