(31) Viva Erotica (1996)

Directed by Derek Yee. A satire take on the Hong Kong Category 3 film industry, and how struggling arthouse filmmakers may be forced to shoot blue films to earn a living.

There's no point in making art films, nonsensical movies can be good too!

Can you please learn to be like Wong Jing, not Wong Kar-wai?

Yee is in big trouble! Only $7, 000 collected from 24 cinemas!

"A STREETCAR WITHOUT WHEELS"? How can a streetcar be without wheels? Of cos' it's a box office disaster!

Direct a porn film? I don't do immoral things.

Don't you know? Famous Japanese arthouse directors started out making porn.

I was going to become a footballer, but my football career ended halfway. Now, my movie-making career is going to end halfway as well.

Making movies is similar to football. You need teamwork.

So this is your boyfriend? A porn director?

Use whatever film saved from the fire, edit them and then send them to the European arthouse cinema.

You're nothing if you stop making movies. What else can you do? I love you because you are a filmmaker.


Sorry, no screenshots of Shu Qi without her clothes. Leslie Cheung is greatly missed. Elvis Tsui is really a talented actor, despite being an active participant in Category 3.