Chan, Pao, Chu!
:: Young A-Go-Go ::
:: Fascinating Hong Kong ::
:: Joy ::
:: Soul Dance ::
Chan Pao Chu, Hong Kong hottie of Sixties Hong Kong cinema, returns to these pages with a 7-inch soundtrack to one of her films, The Miraculous Thief (a.k.a. A Romantic Thief). It contains messy, yet endearing, girl group renditions of both The Beatles’ “Eight Days a Week” and Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair).” The Movie-Fan Princess site has the lowdown on the slapstick comedy, where we learn that Chan and her girlfriends use the Lennon-McCartney hit, here titled, “Joy,” to distract prison guards and make their escape from jail. The site also contains a link to a clip from the film of the girls performing, “Young A-Go-Go,” while night-clubbers look to be doing something similar to “dancing.” All of this fine music swirls around a plot involving a pair of drag-queen jewel thieves and a crime-fighting duo containing a 7-foot tall cop and his midget partner. This is no mere movie, folks; this appears to be Cinema.
Phil
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007 1:16:00 PMCompletely fucking surreal. Maybe it's the cumulative combat shock of listening to this, Johnny Wright, and the Sun City Girls back to back... but this shit is like eavesdropping on Shonen Knife blasted back in time to do some in-country gig for the troops as the huey blades whir overhead and your body bleeds out in the paddyfield. Just as uncomfortable as it is eerily funny.
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