A Dancing Boy in Underworld Street aka Black Street aka Dark Street Gigolo (1993)

A DANCING BOY IN UNDERWORLD STREET

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This wonderfully titled genre exercise from 1993 is an excellent mix of action and nudie sleaze. The euphemism of a title I assume refers to a gigolo? As in one of it's alt. titles, DARK STREET GIGOLO? Whatever it refers to, B-movie icons Dick Wei, Melvin Wong Gam-san, Ken Tong Jan-yip, and a scene stealing, scenery chewing, larger than the almighty gosh himself, Shing Fui-on get to macho posture and act like big cocks of the walk in a neatly paced and packaged cheapo.

They call him "One Eye"....or Dick

I bought the vcd used off of Ebay many a moon ago and watched it soon after. While I do recall mildly enjoying it the first time around, I remembered very, very little of it. I recently gave it another go and was so dang happy that I did. Z-grade crap made in this films vein were a dime a dozen in the early 90's and I have seen many a weak suck from that era. A DANCING BOY IN UNDERWORLD STREET is a touch rare and most definitely worthy of a look.

The story is shoddy (as were 95% of HK films from those years) but that is definitely not a knock. Shitty mumbo jumbo about arms smuggling that has a double cross here and there but nothing that'll F your mind. It's simple narrative leaves many openings for some finely staged meager budgeted action scenes. Explosions and spent artillery are everywhere as the magic bullets fly and the victims twirl, flip, and flop before hitting the dirt. There is also a fine smattering of nookie scenes involving people of little consequence to the main action. Most of these scenes are rather limp going and turtle paced. But hey, they are bang scenes with nekkid people simulating freakin' on film so it can't be all that bad. A word of warning to those who didn't grow up in the 70's and 80's. The ladies sport au naturale undercarriages.
Oh, Big Silly Head. Who doesn't just love Big Silly Head? The late Shing Fui-on goes off in this piece and overacts so damn wildly. Barking, grunting, and grouching at everyone and everything. He is most definitely the coolest thing about the film. He'a low level dai lo and when his small potatoes address him as such, the subtitles read, "Big Cheese." The spoiler that i'm kinda gonna warn you 'bout right here is that Fui-on bites it half way through the flick. But turn that frown upside down. We still get Dick Wei with an eye patch, Melvin Wong Gam-san's mustache, and Ken Tong Jan-yip's apartment adorned with a Terminator 2, Rambo, and Gerardo poster. Rico Freakin' Suave!

The above image, of a pantyhose domed thug, is part of a very effective home invasion scene that is quite brutal. The lady of the house, a working girl, knows waaaaaay too much for one gang to handle. So, a L'eggs headed henchman is enlisted to take her out. And take her out he does but not before smacking her around for the camera. It's a wild scene that is sure to elicit an, "Oh, shit!" What was that song by Prodigy? Smack My Bitch Up? They must have seen this film?

My everyday workplace mutterings....

Pointing to the cheapness, or maybe realism, of this piece is a Hawaiian shirt worn by Melvin Wong gam-san. This ugly wardrobe choice makes an appearance at the beginning of the film. As the film spans a week or two, nearing the films finale, Melvin sports the same shirt. I will tend to think of this as film realism and not a wardrobe budget constraint. Hey, even dai lo have a clothes rotation. Maybe since he wore the shirt last Monday, being a new week, enough time had past where he thought he could wear it again?

You might really have to be an all encompassing HK film fan, and maybe even a very forgiving one as well to enjoy A DANCING BOY IN UNDERWORLD STREET. This is lightweight genre stuff but I found it to quickly be in my wheelhouse. The familiar faces and quick bursts of action and naked bits really fill any narrative voids and push the film forward at a nice clip. For a film who's running time is a shade under 90 minutes, there are about 5 really nice action scenes and maybe 3-4 boot knocker episodes. That amounts to a steady flow of blood and sperm. And isn't blood and sperm what it's all about?

Sometimes a Dick is just a Dick
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They fly through the air with the greatest of ease
These are the men who co-star in great sleaze

Happy Belated CAT III New Year!

Happy belated New Year, everyone! Still feeling a bit under the weather. That, coupled with the holidays, has seen me neglect this blog for some time. Slowly going to try and get back into things. I hope you all had a wonderful New Year celebration? I tagged along with Wei and a few of her extended family members to the Poconos for some snow bound shenanigans. We rented a lake house and hit up a few ski mountains. Though I do have major medical insurance, I am not one for skiing. I like my limbs intact, thank you very much. Plus, I couldn't afford to be out of work with some silly ski injury. So, snow tubing it was. Good times acting like a 10 year old. Above is the back of my noggin looking out over the frozen waters outside of our lake house.

Headless pic of Wei and I ringing in the new year. I'm stylin' with my Gambling Vampire t-shirt, exclusively from Shelf Life Clothing. If you want to be cool like me, I suggest you pick one up. Mention my name while ordering, and you will get to pay the full price plus shipping. Shelf Life Clothing is the shit!

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I was thinking of a quick and cool New Year's post but I obviously dropped the ball by going on vacation and almost forgetting I even had a blog. But, during my cold pharmaceutical haze, I noodled with ideas, and the thought of 'Baby New Year' cropped up. But how was I going to relate Baby New Year to HK cinema? Hmmmm? A baby? I know that I/we NEED HK cinema. But what do babies need? Hmmmm? Milk!!! But how am I going to incorporate HK cinema with milk? Hmmmm? BOOBIES! It's a natural progression, really. Thank you so very much Mr. Robitussin (with an assist by that bitch-goddess Ms.Nyquil) for all of your help. Veronica Yip Yuk-hing helps us celebrate the new year below. Taken from the title sequence of Cha Chuen Yee's 1991 CAT III comedy, TAKE ME, (also see my X-mas post below w/ a screen shot featuring Charlie Cho Cha-lee, taken from the same flick.) Veronica tells us her name. Take it away, Ronnie....

I shall call you, "nom nom nom nom nom"

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A few weeks ago I posted a video of Wei and I Christmas shopping in C-town. The vid below is actually part 1. Wei and I hit up my favorite HK movie shopping spots and you again get to hear me narrate with my lovely NY accent. I don't actually go inside of any of the establishments as the shop owners frown on camera use. I do, however, take you down a few C-town streets while I stroll and stop outside of each HK flick spot. Hopefully this coming weekend I will get to play a little blog game called, "I'll show you mine, if you show me yours. But only if you want to. No pressure. Really. Only if you feel comfortable. I don't want to make you do anything you feel uncomfortable with. I care about you too much," in which I will show you my X-mas swag. Santa and Wei were very good to me this year and I received some awesome Hong Kong goodies. Until then, enjoy the video! And again, HAPPY BELATED CAT III NEW YEAR!!!!!!

Saturday Stuff

Ok. Slowly back to the bump and grind. Just as I eased off of the Thanksgiving leftovers, and ate a heaping helping of my blog birthday cock cake, I have turned to stuffing my fat mug with Hanukkah delicacies like General Tso's gefilte fish, cream cheese and lox fried wontons, and hot and sour matzoh ball soup. I have added considerable girth so far this holiday season and am feeling lethargic. So, here's and easy post for ya'll to get through. Above is a pic of the 2010 NYAFF screening of GALLANTS. A buddy of mine is getting his KUNG FU HUSTLE mini poster signed by Bruce Leung Siu-leung. To the right of Bruce is MC Jin. That gargantuan, bulbous, white cranium you see peeking out over the demure Asian woman is your truly. After getting my GALLANTS picture auto'ed by Bruce, I let out a whimpy, "M'goi, sai." I'm such an idiot.

I may have shown this pic before? My memory leaves a lot to be desired and i'm just too lazy to go back through my archives to check. Anyway, Wei and I were car shopping this past summer and came across a Toyota with the Shaw Bros. symbol on the trunk. How randomly cool is that?

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CRAZY EMPEROR (1993)
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After Wei and I are through scouring the largely bootleg HK films found in Flushing, we usually stop off at our favorite spot for dinner. 66 Lu's Seafood. It's a small Taiwanese joint on the corner of 39th and Prince. We always say that we are going to try a new place. Venture out beyond the norm. But it rarely happens. We always find ourselves plunked down here enjoying the exact same fare each and every time. The pics below are of our usual spread. It's comfort food for my fat ass.

A big reason why I have man boobs

Pork Chop over rice w/ vegetables

Stinky or 'smelled' Tofu

Oyster pancake

BODY LOVER (1993)

Cheesy action and sex abound in the cool CAT III flick BODY LOVER. The film is a sequel to director Jeng Kin-pin's first film, HONG KONG EVA. In fact, the first 5 minutes of BODY LOVER are the final 5 minutes of HONG KONG EVA. Both films are brimming with fine low budget goodness. Kin-pin is only listed as directing 3 films, his third and final film being the excellent CAT III roughie, SUBURB MURDER. If you are into this kind of smut, all 3 films are recommended. Above is a cornball action scene with notable CAT III nudie starlet Julie Lee Wa-yuet involved in the melee. Though an infamous CAT III queen, Ms. Lee really isn't so easy on the eyes. However she is notorious for taking it in every orifice in her 1995 directorial debut (with an assist by T.F. Mou) TRILOGY OF LUST. Revisit my TRILOGY OF LUST post right HERE. Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

TAKE ME (1991)



CAGED BEAUTIES (1992)


MY BETTER HALF (1993)



TEMPTATION SUMMARY (1990)


TEMPTATION SUMMARY (1990)



COME ON GIRLS (1993)


TEMPTATION SUMMARY (1990)
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TO ALL OF MY AMERICAN FRIENDS, HAVE A HAPPY, HEALTHY, AND SAFE THANKSGIVING!!!

Fun with Charlie Cho Cha-lee in LOVE IS OVER (1993)

OK. So I enjoyed LOVE IS OVER (1993). Not much of a surprise. Right? And though it wasn't CITIZEN KANE, it had way too many choice Charlie Cho Cha-lee moments to pass over. Hence, why I went a bit haywire with the screencaps. So spend some more time here with Charlie, if you will. And afterwards, break out that old prescription of Valtrex. For Charlie might be here a brief moment. But that burning sensation lasts forever.