The Story Of Prostitutes DVD Region All

"The girls are goods," says Anthony Wong as Uncle Tony, a bike-shop-owning vulgarian introduced in a close-up crotch shot. To him the triads are a service industry and he runs his like a corporate management specialist: paying Mike's debts, transferring him to Mongkok, dispensing advice and discussing social problems. He has a relationship of sorts with an older prostitute who hangs out at the dance club dispensing hardboiled aphorisms and listening to Wong's wooing words ("Lily, where did you buy my underwear?").

The assistant director of Fallen Angels, Kong Yuek-shing, films the apartment and the inevitable sex scenes (very few of these) like an Iron Maiden video aspiring to artistic cheesecake. But his sweltering street scenes of young guys in tight beefy-t's guzzling Thai iced coffee and trying to cool down in a blistering Hong Kong heat wave while they snipe at each other and manage their business have a nature documentary feel to them.

The strangest figures in the flick are Coco and Bobo who seem to reflect back what the men around them think they are. They service 20-30 customers a day and come away raring for sex with Jack. They rarely eat, prowl his apartment in lingerie, and, most disconcertingly, call him "Daddy". Their final betrayal comes from nowhere and seems totally amoral, but entirely logical, and it's the only novelty in this strange, perplexing, somewhat fascinating addition to the pimps and chickens genre.

by Grady Hendrix