Robotrix

Robotrix
Directed byJamie Luk Kin-ming
Written byJamie Luk
So Man-Sing
Produced byHenry Chan
StarringAmy Yip
David Wu
Chikako Aoyama [ja]
Chung Lin
Billy Chow
Hui Hsiao-dan
CinematographyJim Yeung
Edited byPeter Cheung
Ng Wang Hung
Music byJim Yeung
Siu Hung Yeung
Production
companies
Golden Harvest
Paragon Films Ltd.
Distributed byGolden Harvest
Release date
  • 31 May 1991 (1991-05-31) (Hong Kong)
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Running time
97 minutes[3]
CountryHong Kong
LanguageCantonese
Box officeHK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong)[1][2]

Robotrix (Chinese 女机械人 pinyin: nǚ jīxièrén "Woman Robot") is a 1991 Hong Kong science fiction exploitation film directed by Jamie Luk Kin-ming and produced by the Golden Harvest Company.[4] Bill Lui, the winner of the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards (Best Art Direction), is the Art Director of this film. It features the voluptuous soft-porn star Amy Yip, Taiwanese-American actor David Wu, Japanese actress Chikako Aoyama [ja], kung fu expert Billy Chow, and Hui Hsiao-dan.[5][6] The plot concerns a female police officer who is gunned down, only to have her mind transferred into a cyborg clone.[7] The idea of mind uploading as well as some cult elements inside the film make Robotrix become a science fiction film classic in Hong Kong.[8]

This erotic R-rated thriller is notable for a Hong Kong film on general release in featuring frequent female full-frontal nudity, and is particularly notable for a scene of brief full-frontal male nudity (of Hong Kong Chinese actor Chung Lin, playing the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto), as it is perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's private parts have been fully revealed on camera in a film for general release.[citation needed] It was also perhaps notable for leading the way in Hong Kong category 3 martial arts films. Cast member Vincent Lyn said of the film, "Now that was one wild shoot. The cast and crew were all over the place and you were lucky to find out what you were doing before the cameras rolled. I spent more time laughing on the set than anything else."[6]

  1. ^ a b "Robotrix at the HKMDB".
  2. ^ a b "Robotrix in Hong Kong Film Archive". 1991.
  3. ^ "Robotrix at Hong Kong Cinemagic".
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  8. ^ "《銃夢》式科幻題材港產片一早有，《女機械人》成人情節可圈可點". HK01. 12 February 2019.