Hollywood-Hong Kong
Director: Fruit Chan
Genre: Japanese Movies, Chinese Movies
Country: Hong Kong, France, Japan
Starring: Glen Chin, Zhou Xun
Hollywood Hong Kong (香港有個荷里活, Heung gong yau gok hor lei wood) is a 2001 Hong Kong film directed by Fruit Chan, with screenplay written by Kei To Lam. It is the second installment of his "prostitution trilogy" which Chan directed from 2000-02. The other two movies in the trilogy are Durian Durian (2000) and Public Toilet (2002).
Chan is known for his disassociation with the Chinese mainland cinema and this film continues that legacy with the use of little-known actors (except for Zhou Xun) and dark humor.
The story takes place in Tai Hom Village, a small Hong Kong shantytown that is literally and figuratively overshadowed by a large apartment and mall complex called Plaza Hollywood. The movie begins with pig butcher, Mr. Chu (Glen Chin) and his sons, Tiny (Leung Sze Ping) and Ming (Ho Sai Man) who are all obese. Keung (Won You Nam), also a resident of the town, is preoccupied with internet porn which leads him to meet Mainland Chinese prostitute Hung Hung (Zhou Xun), who advertises her services online and whom he pays for a night of torrid sex in the bushes outside Plaza Hollywood.
Hung Hung slowly infiltrates the lives of the town's characters, befriending Chu's family, especially
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