Bugis Street (film)

Bugis Street 妖街皇后
(Mandarin name: Yāo Jiē Huánghòu)
Directed byYonfan
Written byFruit Chan
Yuo Chan
Yonfan
StarringMichael Lam Wai-Leung
Hiep Thi Le
CinematographyJacky Tang
Edited byMa Kam
Production
company
Jaytex Productions
Distributed byMargin Films (USA)
Release date
  • 13 April 1995 (1995-04-13) (Hong Kong & Singapore)
Running time
100 minutes
CountriesHong Kong
Singapore
LanguageEnglish & Mandarin

Bugis Street (妖街皇后) is a 1995 Hong Kong-Singapore co-production directed by Yonfan, about the lives of Singaporean transvestites in a bygone era. It was a minor hit at the box office with a sexually-explicit R(A) (in short as Restricted (Artistic)) rating, male full-frontal nudity and its nostalgic evocation of a seedy but colourful aspect of Singaporean culture,[1] prior to the redevelopment of Bugis Street into a modern shopping district and the eradication of transvestite activities in the area.

In 2015, the restored version of the film was presented at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival as Bugis Street Redux.[2]

  1. ^ Finding Love Along Bugis Street http://popspoken.com/screen/2015/11/sgiff-bugisstreetredux
  2. ^ "SGIFF celebrates Asia's Story in film with 20th Anniversary screening of 'Mee Pok Man' and 'Bugis Street'". SINdie.sg. Retrieved 18 December 2015.