Sexy Career Girls
Director: Lu Chi
1980
Two years after the nude infested “The Foxy
Ladies”, Lu Chi for some reason pulls back on those aspects to instead
deliver a rather pointless and bland romantic drama that is almost as modest
as a church bazaar. Maybe times were changing and the “adult” films were
losing their audience appeal. Certainly, Lu Chi’s run of films was nearly
at an end thankfully. It stars two of the actresses from “Foxy Ladies”
– Ai Ti looking very chic in her array of miniskirts and Ling Tai goes
homey as a woman just looking for a husband. They are sisters who come
to Hong Kong from one of the outlying islands in hope as they pray “to
make more money and marry a nice guy”. The film traces their separate stories
for the most part and only brings them together again in the final third.
Yin (Ling Tai) moves in with her sexy cousin and
does the maid work. The cousin is playing around with a wealthy older man
– the cross-eyed To Siu-ming. He was one of Hong Kong’s major comedians
back in those days when crossed-eyes were funny I guess. It made me wonder
why we haven’t had one for a while. Maybe it’s time. Yin is out to net
herself a husband and has a playboy in her cross-hairs, but he has no interest
in her or in settling down. She sets up circumstances so that she moves
in with him as the maid and nothing he can do can get rid of her – not
even having three friends come over to “seduce” her – better known as rape
in most circles – but she is still not deterred.
Mary (Ai Ti) starts out as a cigarette girl handing
out free samples in her shorts but she is spotted at a disco by Law Ho-kai
and he immediately knows executive material when he sees it and so hires
her for his advertising company. Her assignment is to get cozy with an
elderly tycoon who owns a few companies and get their ad business. The
tycoon (veteran actor Cheung Kwun-ma) is smitten with Mary though he is
concerned with his “rusty sword”. And really very little happens that isn’t
obvious – the girls stay good and the men come around like men always do.
Yum Yum Shaw has a small cameo as a ditzy girl – and the only nudity is
a brief scene with the cousin alone in her bed with a magazine and a fashion
spread photo shoot. Yawn.
My rating for this film: 3.0
