Liu Jai: Home For The Intimate Ghosts- 聊齋花弄月(1991)

 Liu Jai: Home For The Intimate Ghosts (1991)

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Director Lam Yee-hung's LIU JAI: HOME FOR THE INTIMATE GHOSTS is an erotic ghost story retread before erotic ghost story retreads became fashionable.  And it's a dang fine one!  Yee-hung brims his erotic ghost boobies story with copious amounts of coitus and comely starlets dressed way, way down. 

Of interest, to me at least, is that the starlets on display in the film aren't the usual band of bang-abouts.  No Rena Otomo's, Yau Yuk-yue's, or Chan Poo Kei's.  These no name nubiles shed their clothes and we are all the better for it.  Much, much, much skin is on display (and I even spotted a third input!).  These lovely hirsute maidens look to have Buckwheat in a leg-lock, but I suppose their untrimmed hedges were part of the actresses immersing themselves in their period piece roles?   
 

Lam Yee Hung can be artsy fartsy when he chooses, praying at the altar of Ho Fan, but usually keeps it low brow enough to not cross over into 'art over smut.'  The smut to art ratio lovingly favors the former.  Charlie Cho livens things up as a taoist Ghostbuster who uses his 'ghost-fu' to do away with the naughty specters.  There's also an appearance by Shaw hottie Siu Yam Yam, who was pretty prolific in the early 90's CAT III era, even adding story, planning, and writing credits to her naughty legacy.  The T&A on display is only half the fun.  Wire work fisticuffs and laser-beam effects push the film over into pure joy.

HK Laserdiscs! Would you like some?

OK, folks.  I have FINALLY taken my lazy pants off and put my stained tighty whitey work undies on.  I got down to business this past weekend and went through ALL of my LD's and cataloged them.  I weeded out my doubles and triples and have provided them in the list below.  Unfortunately the titles are rather pedestrian and nothing too cool or obscure.  With the exception of one or two.  Oh.  And the final count of LD's............805!!!  I couldn't believe it myself.  Can you say, "HK movie loser?"  I know you can!  Anyway, if anyone is interested in trading or buying, let me know.  I only have three that have original covers and they have been listed as such. Take a gander....

The Inspector Wears Skirts IV

Royal Tramp

Royal Tramp II

Destination 9th Heaven

Chungking Express

Crime Story

Psycho Killer

Taxi Hunter

City Hunter

Master Wong Vs. Master Wong

Hero of Hong Kong 1949

Once Upon a Time in China IV

Growing Up

Love and the City

Full Contact

We're No Bad Guys

Boy's?

The Thief of Time

Legend of the Chiu Chow Brothers

Love...Amoeba Style

Don't Give a Damn

God of Gamblers III: Back to Shanghai

Ashes of Time

The Bodyguard From Beijing

Man Wanted

Fist and Guts

Fussy Ghost

Wicked City

My Father is a Hero

The Story of Pei-li

The New Marvelous Double (in bad shape)

My Body, Your Soul

Cause We Are So Young

Deadful  Melody

All Men Are Brothers: Blood of the Leopard

End of the Road

The Most Wanted

I Will Wait For You

Returning

Awakening (Yam and Wong)

Laughter of Water Margins

Black Cat

Wild

Lucky Encounter

The Twin Dragons

Wonder Seven

Fong Sai Yuk

Tian Di

Iron Monkey II

One of the Lucky Ones (has cover)

A Woman and a Man '93

Daughter of Darkness

Amour

Hong Kong Valentino

Come on Girls

Satin Steel

The Dare Devils

Talk To Me Dicky

The Blade

Informer (has cover)

Erotic Hero Tale

Angel Hunter

Beyond

The Red Wolf
Nobody Ever Cheats
A Gleam of Hope

Hi Sir (has cover)

Hong Kong Godfather (Andy Lau)

Touch and Go

Does anything tickle your pickle?  Also, be advised that I have not tested any of these so I'm not certain about the picture quality.  I will definitely do so if you ask nicely!

CASH ON DELIVERY- 與鴨共舞 (1992)

 Cash On Delivery (1992)

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Simon Yam Tat-wah made a mint portraying a HK 'duck' (gigolo) in a bunch of movies from the hey day.  And who better to portray a gigolo then Yam?  I'd do him!  New wave director Terry Tong Gei-ming slid down (or up?  Depending on how you see things) the slide from strong early 80's crime pics like COOLIE KILLER, THE PIER, and YELLOW PERIL, into the industries standards for action with SEVEN WARRIORS, eventually ending up in smut town with the first GIGOLO AND WHORE film and this definitive 90's piece of trash, CASH ON DELIVERY.

 The film pairs the suave Yam with the damn fine Veronica Yip Yuk-hing to sex things up and adds a little Sandra Ng Kwun-yu for guffaws.  It's a mish mash affair that combines the steamy, the silly, and the serious as only a HK film can do.  The patented HK cinema way- let's throw a ton of shit up on the screen and see what sticks- of filmmaking is lovingly employed and we are all better off for it.  Good on you Mr. Tong.  Tong would continue his 'slide' upward in the CAT III genre and go on to co-direct the fun sex doc. ALL OVER THE WORLD and then the shot on vid Kara Hui Ying-hung stinker HEART OF DANGER aka FATAL LOVE, before calling it a day.

 Nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom.....

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...nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom, nom...

The Haunted Madam- 師姐撞邪 (1986)

THE HAUNTED MADAM (1986)

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Back when HK cinema bred invention by lack of pocket book, movies like the 1986 spooky kooky action comedy hybrid THE HAUNTED MADAM were part an parcel the energizing efforts that made the west take notice.  For me, anyway.  For all of the straight up Jackie Chan rope ladder stunting and John Woo double fist pump blazing, there were a ton of wonderfully odd marriages of genre.  Like this film.  

As the story goes, 4 comely lady coppers visit a fortune teller who relays their unfortunate fate.  And as the stars of the film usually pan out until the end, some of these lovely little Indians actually meet their maker.  Sometimes in brutal fashion. 

As I'm hard pressed for dialogue these days I'll let the pictures do the talking.  I've been lucky enough to grab a hold of this great films theatrical poster and lobby cards.  The poster came straight outta HK but the lobby cards came from north of the border.  No, not Shenzhen.  My border.  Canada.  The great white tundra.
Enjoy!

Chinatown At Random

 I'm caught up in the throes of my first cold of the season.  As the used tissues pile up and my snot flows freely, I'm not really up to posting much.  I have often flirted with abandoning this sometimes long winded blog in favor of a more snappier picture laden Tumblr blog.  More pics less blah blah yada yada.  So, as I sip my ginger tea and buzz away on Dayquil, here are a bunch of random pics that I took via IPhone on my last two trips into NYC Chinatown. 

Yao's Dragon Beard Candy @ Canal and Bowery

 Dragon Beard Candy.  I also have a video of this guy making this treat.  Wasn't able to eat any.  A day or so later Wei's mom thought it went bad and tossed it.  She had no clue what it was?!

 For all of your funeral needs, shop Hing Tai Co.!

 Kick ass C-town FDNY truck.

Delicious Da Bao @ Hop Shing, Chatham Sq.

The inner workings of the Da Bao; pork, Chinese sausage, eggs, among other mysteries

We tried a new place instead of going to our usual spot, Big Wong's.  I wasn't impressed as I ordered my usual, but Wei had the roast duck fried noodles and they were tasty.

My usual C-town fare of roast pork, roast duck, and a fried egg over white rice.  

Ekin!

Sammi!

Wei, on the phone with her mom, asking what fatty treats we should bring home.  The roast pork and chicken bun was the winner.

Fatal Passion- 致命的誘惑 (1990)

FATAL PASSION (1990)

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One of my new favorite posters for the 1990 thrillerama (thats thriller-drama), FATAL PASSION, starring Alex Man Chi-leung, Eddy Cheung Siu-fai, Nancy Chang Mei-chi, Cher Yeung Suet-yee, and a small bit by Lo Lieh.  It's a sultry and sexy HK clone of Fatal Attraction.  It even has the word FATAL in the title.  How original?!  But in true to HK cinema form, a hitman is included for the action fans. 

Admittedly, I had never heard of the film until I saw this poster.  It gave me such a wonderful feeling in my loins that I sprang into action and sought the film out.  Lucky me, I found a torrent of the film somewhere in the deep dark nether regions of CAT III cyberspace.  Mazel Tov to the uploader! 

By no means a memorable film and I can say that with confidence because I spun it a few months back and today I couldn't tell you what the heck happened?  But this poster is HOT!!!!

Killing In The Nude- 獻身 (1985)

 KILLING IN THE NUDE (1985)

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Salacious title, OK film.  But it has naughty bits, so we love it anyway.  Director Lee Tso-nam might be more recognized for some of his more bizarre Taiwanese films from the late 80's (KUNG FU WONDER CHILD, MAGIC WARRIORS, and MAGIC AMETHYST) than his cheapo 'chop-socky' exploits from the 70's, but his decent little number finds a home somewhere in between.  Mixing vagina and vengeance, but mostly vagina, KILLING IN THE NUDE is a meager success and a worthy precursor to the period piece CAT III films from HK in the early 90's and a direct descendant of the sensually pleasurable nudies from the Shaw Bros. studios in the 70's.

The movie boast Shaw Bros. vamp, Ai Ti, as the main attraction but it's Kim Gee-mei as Orchid and Yagami Yasuko as Orchids kid sis, Hao Hao, who really get to sex and sin it up in the pic.  KILLING IN THE NUDE  is a lady avenger flick that my kick-ass poster makes look a lot better than it is.  It's still a fun period (who knew periods could be this fun?) romp that, after wading through hokey drama and a few fleshy scenes, lives up to it's title in the end.  Yowza!