With Michael Bell, Arthur Burghardt, Corey Burton, Victor Caroli. A mad scientist transfers his mind to a wicked robot, which then embarks on a program of kidnaping, rape and murder, during which a female detective is killed. To fight the robot, the police woman.
| Robotrix | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Jamie Luk Kin-ming |
| Produced by | Henry Chan |
| Written by | Jamie Luk So Man-Sing |
| Starring | David Wu Chikako Aoyama [zh] Chung Lin Billy Chow Hui Hsiao-dan Amy Yip |
| Music by | Jim Yeung Siu Hung Yeung |
| Cinematography | Jim Yeung |
| Edited by | Peter Cheung Ng Wang Hung |
Golden Harvest Paragon Films Ltd. | |
| Distributed by | Golden Harvest |
| |
| 97 minutes[2] | |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | HK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong)[1] |
Robotrix (Chinese 女机械人 pinyin: nǚ jīxièrén 'Woman Robot') is a 1991 Hong Kongscience fictionexploitation film directed by Jamie Luk Kin-ming and produced by the Golden Harvest Company.[3]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 attress Chikako Aoyama [zh], kung fu expert Billy Chow, Hui Hsiao-dan, and the voluptuous soft-porn star Amy Yip.[4][5] The plot concerns a female police officer who is gunned down, only to have her mind transferred into a cyborg clone.[6] 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.[7]
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.'[5]
Plot[edit]
A criminally insane scientist, Ryuichi Sakamoto (Chung Lin), transfers his mind into a cyborg and immediately commits a series of rapes and murders. Among his victims is female police officer Selena Lin (Chikako Aoyama). The scientist Dr. Sara (Hui Hsiao-dan) transfers Selena's mind into a cyborg named Eve-27, including Sara's robotic assistant named Ann (Amy Yip), the cyborg-robot team join the police force and pursue the criminal Sakamoto by investigating a series of murdered prostitutes. After Selena/Eve-27 have sexual relations with her policeman boyfriend Chou (David Wu), Ann become curious about human sexual activity, but without human mind Ann is not capable to know further...[8]
Cast and roles[edit]
Chikako Aoyama [zh] – Selena Lin/Eve-27
Amy Yip – Ann
David Wu – Chou
Billy Chow – Ryuichi Sakamoto's cyborg
Chung Lin – Ryuichi Sakamoto
Hui Hsiao-dan – Doctor Sara
Ng Kin-chung [zh] – Puppy
Bowie Wu – Police Commissioner
Lee Hin-Ming [zh] – Informer Hui
Box office[edit]
The film grossed HK$5,486,008 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 31 May to 13 June 1991 in Hong Kong.[1]
Blu-ray reprint[edit]
This film was first released on Blu-ray Disc on March 27, 2020.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abc'Robotrix at the HKMDB'.
- ^'Robotrix at Hong Kong Cinemagic'.
- ^Williams, Linda Ruth (2005), Contemporary Cinema, Indiana University Press, p. 453, ISBN0253347130.
- ^Hammond, Stefan; Wilkins, Mike (1996), Sex and Zen & a Bullet in the Head, A Fireside book, Simon and Schuster, pp. 166–168, ISBN0684803410.
- ^ abMeyers, Richard (2001), Great Martial Arts Movies: From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan— and More, Citadel Film Series (2nd ed.), Citadel Press, p. 163, ISBN0806520264.
- ^Staff (2004), The Scarecrow Movie Guide, Seattle: Sasquatch Books, pp. 339–340, ISBN1570614156.
- ^'《銃夢》式科幻題材港產片一早有，《女機械人》成人情節可圈可點'. HK01. 12 February 2019.
- ^Crow, Jonathan, 'Robotrix (2000)', The New York Times, retrieved 23 June 2012.
External links[edit]
- Nu ji xie ren on IMDb
- Robotrix at the Hong Kong Movie DataBase
- Robotrix at Hong Kong Cinemagic
Area of Expertise
I can help with the following:
Robot Wars Robots
Robotrix Full Movie English
Manual Robot
Line Follower Robot
Wireless Robots
Autonomous Robots
Arduino Projects
Would you like to receive mentor-ship for building robots?
Robotrix Full Movie Stream
AboutHarish Rammohan started his journey in robotics at the age of 18, when he was a student at St. Joseph’s College of Engineering, Chennai and received the Indian National Academy of Engineering’s Innovative Student Project Award by the time he was 22. During his 4-year bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering, Harish along with his friend Sujith, managed to enter more than 80 robotics competitions and had won accolades in more than 60 competitions!Harish began his career as a Robotics Engineer at a startup incubated at IIT-Madras where he coached over 200 students in the usage of micro-controllers and sensors to make task-based robots. His passion for robots and enthusiasm for micro-controllers helped him lead a 8-week intensive training boot-camp for fresh college graduates to find jobs in successful start-ups in IIT-Madras Research Park.
Robotrix Full Movie
Schedule a free 20-min consultation