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Type.................: Movie
File Validation......: SHA-256 HASH
Title................: Mini-Skirt Gang (Original title "Feng kuang da ben zei")
Studio...............: Shaw Brothers
Actors...............: Birte Tove, Ping Chen, Lan-Shi Liang
Directors............: Chi Lu
Writers..............: Chi Lu
Genre................: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Release Date.........: August 03, 1974 (Hong Kong)
Duration.............: 01:26:04 (per actual main feature)
Rated................: Not Rated
Cover(s) Included....: Yes
Language.............: Chinese
Subtitles............: English* (*custom updated translation)
Resolution...........: 480p @ 16:9
Source...............: Retail R6 DVD.
IMDb Information.....: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0895771/
IMDb Rating..........: 5.2/10
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Height : 370 pixels
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Frame rate mode : Constant
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Bit depth : 8 bits
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Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 96.0 kb/s
Channel(s) : 2 channels
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Sampling rate : 48.0 kHz
Title : Stereo / Stereo
Language : Chinese
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Reviews/Synopsis
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"A gang of several girls who operate as pickpockets in a busy and popular tourist area of Hong Kong preys on men who are attracted by their beauty."
When I first started getting into Hong Kong films and the Shaw Brothers back in the 1990s, this film was often talked about in back street alleys - sexy, nudity, cheeky - elusive as the Yeti but filled with promise. There just seemed to be no way to obtain the film though other than promising your first born and the few who had seen it were from a race of Super Men, who spoke of it like it was a state secret. Even when Celestial bought the rights to the Shaw Brothers library they never got around to releasing this film (and many others unfortunately) at the time. But it was out there in the gray market and in pretty good condition - so having given up on Celestial I picked it up and watched it - and now that Celestial released it, here it is.
The one fact that all those people who had seen it never got around to mentioning is that the film is awful! Drivel. Plotless. Pointless. Ok, not entirely pointless as it does have four lovely ladies in various stages of dress throughout. That is actually all it has and perhaps once upon a time in the 1970's that was enough for audiences in Hong Kong. Remember this was pre-cable.
In the 1970's part of Shaw's output switched over to very soft core simulated sex/nudity and there were a few actresses who made a name for themselves performing in these films. Most of the films are pretty brainless but not all - a few were period sex romps and a few had gritty plots of vengeance and violence. But the majority were comedies in name only.
Lui Kei who directs this film was responsible for a whole bunch of them - Sexy Girls of Denmark, Sexy Playgirls, Sexy Career Girls - and so on. Especially weird in that in the 1960's he was one of the major male romantic stars of Cantonese films playing second fiddle to Connie Chan or Josephine Siao on many an occasion. I guess with the collapse of the Cantonese film industry, he turned to directing goofy sex films. It would be nice to say that he had a certain style or brought something unique to them but they are basically as bad as episodes of Love American Style but with nudity.
This one has two well-known female stars in that small circle of HK exploitation actresses - the blonde Danish actress Birte Tove who had made a number of soft core films in Europe - Swedish Fly Girls, Danish Bed and Board - and who somehow managed to find herself in three Shaw films - The Mini-Skirt Gang, Sexy Girls of Denmark and the very good and trashy film The Bamboo House of Dolls. Alongside Birte is Chen Ping who is one of my favorite Shaw actresses as she managed to go back and forth between straight Shaw films and these exploitation films. Two of her best exploitation films are The Kiss of Death and Big Bad Sis in which she is looking for sweet revenge.
There is really nothing to this film - like a leaf blowing by in the wind. Four young women just want to have fun and money - the money is derived from pickpocketing men who are easily fooled or distracted by these women. For nearly the entire film it is a series of various scenarios in which they pick pockets. I was just in Hong Kong - I must have gotten lucky because it seems there are pickpockets everywhere and I now recall that when I visited a temple an announcement was constantly played to beware of pickpockets. But unfortunately no sexy women tried with me.
When they are not stealing, they are walking around their apartment in their underwear or in one instance taking a shower together. Lui Kei makes a vague and half hearted attempt to throw in a few subplots - a gang that kidnaps girls to force them into prostitution or another girl they bring into the gang getting pregnant - but that was just to pad the film to 90 minutes - the girls in their underwear is the raison d'être and for some that may be enough.
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