| Robotrix | |
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| Directed by | Jamie Luk Kin-ming |
| Written by | Jamie Luk So Man-Sing |
| Produced by | Henry Chan |
| Starring | David Wu Chikako Aoyama 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 |
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Running time | 97 minutes[3] |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong)[1][2] |
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, 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]
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]
