Robotrix
{{Short description|1991 Hong Kong film by Jamie Luk}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Robotrix
| image = Robotrix promotional material for mytv super.jpg
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| director = Jamie Luk Kin-ming
| producer = Henry Chan
| writer = Jamie Luk
So Man-Sing
| screenplay =
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| starring = Amy Yip
David Wu
{{ill|Chikako Aoyama|lt=|ja|青山知可子}}
Chung Lin
Billy Chow
Hui Hsiao-dan
| music = Jim Yeung
Siu Hung Yeung
| cinematography = Jim Yeung
| editing = Peter Cheung
Ng Wang Hung
| studio = Golden Harvest
Paragon Films Ltd.
| distributor = Golden Harvest
| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1991|05|31|Hong Kong}}
| runtime = 97 minutes{{cite web|url=http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/movie.asp?id=421 |title=Robotrix at Hong Kong Cinemagic}}
| country = Hong Kong
| language = Cantonese
| budget =
| gross = HK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong){{cite web|url=http://www.hkmdb.com/db/movies/view.mhtml?id=7366&display_set=eng |title=Robotrix at the HKMDB}}{{cite web|url=https://mcms.lcsd.gov.hk/FAMS_ipac/cclib/search/showBib.jsp?f=e&id=6553721888005&oai=t|title=Robotrix in Hong Kong Film Archive|year=1991 }}
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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. 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 {{ill|Chikako Aoyama|lt=|ja|青山知可子}}, kung fu expert Billy Chow, and Hui Hsiao-dan. The plot concerns a female police officer who is gunned down, only to have her mind transferred into a cyborg clone.
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.{{cite web|url=https://www.hk01.com/%E9%9B%BB%E5%BD%B1/293859/%E9%8A%83%E5%A4%A2-%E5%BC%8F%E7%A7%91%E5%B9%BB%E9%A1%8C%E6%9D%90%E6%B8%AF%E7%94%A2%E7%89%87%E4%B8%80%E6%97%A9%E6%9C%89-%E5%A5%B3%E6%A9%9F%E6%A2%B0%E4%BA%BA-%E6%88%90%E4%BA%BA%E6%83%85%E7%AF%80%E5%8F%AF%E5%9C%88%E5%8F%AF%E9%BB%9E |title=《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|website=HK01|date=12 February 2019}}
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|date=July 2012}} 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."
Plot
A criminally insane scientist, Ryuichi Sakamoto (Chung Lin), transfers his mind into a cyborg and immediately commits a series of rapes and murders. Among his victims is female police officer Selena Lin (Chikako Aoyama). The scientist Dr. Sara (Hui Hsiao-dan) transfers Selena's mind into a cyborg named Eve-27, including Sara's robotic assistant named Ann (Amy Yip), the cyborg-robot team join the police force and pursue the criminal Sakamoto by investigating a series of murdered prostitutes. After Selena/Eve-27 have sexual relations with her policeman boyfriend Chou (David Wu), Ann become curious about human sexual activity, but without human mind Ann is not capable to know further...
Cast
- Amy Yip – Ann
- David Wu – Chou
- {{ill|Chikako Aoyama|lt=|ja|青山知可子}} – Selena Lin/Eve-27
- Billy Chow – Ryuichi Sakamoto's cyborg
- Chung Lin – Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Hui Hsiao-dan – Doctor Sara
- {{ill|Ng Kin-chung|lt=|zh|鬼塚 (香港演員)}} – Puppy
- Bowie Wu – Police Commissioner
- {{ill|Lee Hin-Ming|lt=|zh|李顯明}} – Informer Hui
Box office
The film grossed HK$5,486,008 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 31 May to 13 June 1991 in Hong Kong.
Blu-ray reprint
This film was first released on Blu-ray Disc on March 27, 2020. Then on November 11, 2024, online boutique movie store [https://shoutfactory.com/ Shoutfactory] released a Blu-Ray Disc of “Robotrix” as a part of its Golden Harvest compilation release called “[https://shoutfactory.com/products/golden-harvest-vol-1-supernatural-shockers-exclusive-poster Golden Harvest Vol. 1 Supernatural Shockers].”
See also
References
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{{citation | first1=Jonathan | last1=Crow | title=Robotrix (2000) | url=https://movies.nytimes.com/movie/199793/Robotrix/overview | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071121162838/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/199793/Robotrix/overview | url-status=dead | archive-date=2007-11-21 | accessdate=2012-06-23 | department=Movies & TV Dept. | work=The New York Times | date=2007 | postscript=. }}
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External links
- {{IMDb title|0102562|Nu ji xie ren}}
- {{hkmdb title|7366}}
- [http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/movie.asp?id=421 Robotrix] at Hong Kong Cinemagic
- [https://mcms.lcsd.gov.hk/FAMS_ipac/cclib/search/showBib.jsp?f=e&id=6553721888005&oai=t Robotrix] in Hong Kong Film Archive
Category:1990s Cantonese-language films
Category:Films set in Hong Kong
Category:Hong Kong science fiction films
Category:Martial arts science fiction films
Category:Techno-thriller films
Category:Fiction about transhumanism
Category:Transhumanism in film
Category:Films about artificial intelligence
Category:Films about consciousness transfer
Category:1990s Hong Kong films