''Robotrix'' (Chinese 女机械人 pinyin: ''nǚ jīxièrén'' "Woman Robot") is a 1991

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directed by Jamie Luk Kin-ming and produced by the Golden Harvest Company. Bill Lui, the winner of the

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(Best Art Direction), is the Art Director of this film. It features the voluptuous soft-porn star

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, Taiwanese-American actor

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, Japanese actress , kung fu expert

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, 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

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as well as some cult elements inside the film make Robotrix become a science fiction film classic in Hong Kong. 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. 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 Human sexual activity, human sexual practice or human sexual behaviour is the manner in which humans experience and express Human sexuality, their sexuality. People engage in a variety of sexual acts, ranging from activities done alone (e.g., ...

, but without human mind Ann is not capable to know further...

Cast

– Ann *

– Chou * – Selena Lin/Eve-27 *

– Ryuichi Sakamoto's cyborg * Chung Lin – Ryuichi Sakamoto * Hui Hsiao-dan – Doctor Sara * – Puppy *

Bowie Wu Bowie Wu Fung (born 18 January 1932) is a Hong Kong veteran actor and director with family roots in Guangdong, China. A matinée idol in the 1950s and 1960s, he began his acting career in long form Cantonese films 1953, becoming an overnight suc ...

– Police Commissioner * – 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

Blu-ray reprint

This film was first released on

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on March 27, 2020. Then on November 11, 2024, online boutique movie stor
Shoutfactory
released a Blu-Ray Disc of “Robotrix” as a part of its Golden Harvest compilation release called �
Golden Harvest Vol. 1 Supernatural Shockers
”

References

External links

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