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Viva Erotica is a Hongkongais film of genre Drama directed by Derek Yee with Leslie Cheung

Viva Erotica (1996)

Viva Erotica
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Length 1h39
Directed by
OriginHong kong
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating66% 3.342643.342643.342643.342643.34264

Viva Erotica (Chinese: 色情男女) is a 1996 Hong Kong film directed by Derek Yee and Lo Chi-Leung.

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Viva Erotica is a sex-comedy film, though with a serious subject of how an artist has to compromise his artistic integrity to make a living. The film is about an unsuccessful film-director Kwok-Wing (Leslie Cheung) and his producer Chung (Law Kar-ying), who agrees to make Category III sex/porn movies for their financial stability. Their movie projects are financed by a gangster boss Pui (Paul Chun). Shu Qi and Karen Mok played the roles of the leading actresses in the movie. In the end, Wing finally decides not to compromise his artistic integrity by making a porn movie.

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