The beautiful Cherie Chung plays the title character, an exercise teacher who is wooed by a rich, older businessman and a young photographer. You watch Cherie as she bounces between these two, not really liking the businessman, while the photographer is more in love with her image as his model than as a true love.
Cinematography
Patrick Tam frames Cherie Chung like she's the only light in the room.
Costume
Aerobics leotards and power suits—peak 80s Hong Kong fashion porn.
Director
Patrick Tam Kar-Ming
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Patrick Tam was a key figure in Hong Kong's New Wave; this was his rare foray into commercial romance, and he reportedly fought the studio to keep the ambiguous ending.
Cherie Chung was the era's 'girl next door' megastar, making this role's cynicism about male attention quietly subversive for 1984 audiences expecting pure fantasy.
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