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Soap Girl
USA | 2002 | 90min | Color |
Young Man Kang
Kerry Liu, Luciano Saber, Tomiko Lee, Kate Holliday, Hiromi Nishiyama
5022 202 Migliore Cinema 5 2005. 08. 30 13:30 -
5022 216 Migliore Cinema 5 2005. 09. 02 10:30 - -
< Soap Girl > is a entertaining drama about the Asian young girls working as massagers, dealing with the material of women's power. Maya, a Korean immigrant girl, is looking for a job in the Hollywood Massage Parlor. Other girls in Parlor see Maya with curiosity because Maya seems to have a story. Seeing people come to Parlor expecting not only massage services but other services, Maya feel sad as a massager. She meets a innocent bachelor poet and she goes out to look for the hope of life. The most great part of this movie is the action of players. The actresses for massage girls including Maya act vividly and show the charming actions. There has been controversy on < Soap Girl > because this movie used the sexuality of Asian women commercially on the basis of prejudice and let the image of Asian fall down.
He majored in Visual Design at Hongik University, Korea and went to USA in 1994.
He studied film directing in New York New School and had been a TV CF director for 1 year. His first film in Hollywood is < Cupid's Mistake >, which is on the guinness world records as the movie of the lowest budget ($980) of the movies distributed in the American theaters.
Cinematographer : Henryk Tzvi Cymerman
Sound : Torin K Middleton
Makeup : Coco Yuon
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