| Overview: | Hong Kong Night Club is essentially a Japanese movie, although it contains Hong Kong actors in supporting roles, take place in Hong Kong and was released on the Hong Kong film circuit. The film attempted to capitalize on the recent Japanese trend in Hong Kong.
Produced, directed and written by Japanese, the film has the typically good Japanese production values. The story centers on a gay journalist, Takegami and his straight photographer Shibata. The two men are teamed up to uncover the "dark side" of Hong Kong.
They soon find it. After their arrival they are to be found clinging onto the back of a truck escaping from a triad boss (Ng Chi Hung) and his boys, whom they photographed doing a somewhat shady deal.
In order to escape the bad guys, Shibata dons a dress and together they pretend to be a Japanese couple on their honeymoon. But as the triads have Takegami's passport and are taking any Japanese tourists off the street in their manhunt, the duo run into the Lost Castle Club. Once in, they unwittingly become a cabaret act and in the process meet Cora, the resident singer. She falls for Takegami, Takegami falls for his bedmate Shibata (now Maggie) and Shibata falls for Cora.
Overall, an interesting film, with decent acting. It is interesting to see the result of a Japan-HK production.
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