He's a Woman, She's a Man

He's a Woman, She's a Man

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It stars Leslie Cheung Kwok Wing, Anita Yuen Wing Yee, Carina Lau Kar Ling, Jordan Chan Siu Chun and Eric Tsang Chi Wai. Its many awards garnered include Best Actress at the 14th Annual HK Film Awards for Anita Yuen and Best Original Song for 'Chase' by Leslie Cheung.

ynopsis

Wing Anita Yuen is a sassy girl who deeply idolizes Rose (Carina Lau), a pop singer, and Rose's boyfriend, top record producer and song-writer Sam (Leslie Cheung). Rose has been groomed by Sam, achieving stardom and international acclaim. With her success, Sam decides to try his hand at bringing up a male singer. He decides to announce a country-wide, males-only talent search, much to his former protegée's chagrin.

Wing, desperate to meet her idols, seizes this opportunity and enters the contest disguised as a male. Her doting brother Jordan Chan trains her to perfect this whimsical idea.

As fate would have it, Wing succeeds in the audition thanks to the poor quality of those auditioning and in part to Rose's taunts. Rose challenges Sam to see to the idea of him bringing up a (relatively) talentless Wing.

Wing is later invited to stay at Sam and Rose's home for her/"his" musical education. Wing tries unsuccessfully to reconcile the two lovers' differences. Trouble and comedy ensue as she finds herself falling for Sam and vice versa, despite him thinking she is a he.

Miscellaneous

Throughout the movie, certain gay elements were hinted at but never fully developed, such as those portrayed by Eric Tsang (whose character has a somewhat similar appearance to Elton John) which pokes fun at the imminent love that was developing between Wing and Sam as they worked together and had fun as well as the scene where Wing sports an unwanted 'erection' in her male disguise while discussing with Sam about her singing duties.

The theme song is 'Chase' (追) sung by Leslie Cheung ("Most Beloved" album, 1995).

Cast

* Leslie Cheung - Sam Koo Gai Ming
* Carina Lau - Rose
* Anita Yuen - Lam Chi Wing
* Eric Tsang - Auntie
* Jordan Chan - Yu Lo
* Lawrence Cheng
* Law Kar-Ying - Joseph (as Ka-ying Lo)
* Jerry Lamb - Sam's Assistant
* Pete Spurrier - Wine bar patron (uncredited)

ee also

* Cross-dressing in film and television

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109958/ IMDb entry]


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