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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.[4] Bill Lui, the winner of the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards (Best Art Direction), is the Art Director of this film. It features Taiwanese-American actor David Wu, Japanese actress Chikako Aoyama [ja], kung fu expert Billy Chow, Hui Hsiao-dan, and the voluptuous soft-porn star Amy Yip.[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]

Robotrix
Directed by	Jamie Luk Kin-ming
Written by	Jamie Luk So Man-Sing
Produced by	Henry Chan
Starring	David Wu Chikako Aoyama [ja] Chung Lin Billy Chow Hui Hsiao-dan Amy Yip
Cinematography	Jim Yeung
Edited by	Peter Cheung Ng Wang Hung
Music by	Jim Yeung Siu Hung Yeung
Production companies	Golden Harvest Paragon Films Ltd.
Distributed by	Golden Harvest
Release date	31 May 1991 (1991-05-31) (Hong Kong) [1][2]
Running time	97 minutes[3]
Country	Hong Kong
Language	Cantonese
Box office	HK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong)[1][2]

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]

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...[9]

Cast

• Chikako Aoyama [ja] – Selena Lin/Eve-27
• Amy Yip – Ann
• David Wu – Chou
• Billy Chow – Ryuichi Sakamoto's cyborg
• Chung Lin – Ryuichi Sakamoto
• Hui Hsiao-dan – Doctor Sara
• Ng Kin-chung [zh] – Puppy
• Bowie Wu – Police Commissioner
• Lee Hin-Ming [zh] – 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.[1][2]

Blu-ray reprint

This film was first released on Blu-ray Disc on March 27, 2020.

See also

• List of Hong Kong films of 1991
• Nudity in film (East Asian cinema since 1929)

References

External links

• Nu ji xie ren at IMDb
• Robotrix at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
• Robotrix at Hong Kong Cinemagic
• Robotrix in Hong Kong Film Archive

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