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A.V.

Hong Kong 2005
directed by Pang Ho-Cheung
starring Wong You-Nam, Lawrence Chou, Tsang Kwok Cheung, Chui Tien-you (= Tsui Ting Yau), Jeffery Chou (= Chou Chung-Fai), Manami Amamiya, Ng Yan, Monie Dong, Yoyo Chen, Chung King-fai, Chim Sui-man, Eric Kot, Cheung Tat-Ming, Chin Kar Lok, Hui Shiu Hung, Wong Man-Wai
written by Hiroshi, Wenders Li, Pang Ho-Cheung, music by Wong Ngai Lun, Janet Yung

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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4 student friends - Jason, Band-Aid, Fatty and Leung - depserately want to get laid, and after doing a bit of thinking on the subject, they come up with a truly silly plan to get their share of fanny: why not pretend to produce a porn film, invite Japanese porn star Manami Amamiya (playing basically herself) over to Hong Kong and this way all getting to shag her ...

What seems easy (?) is tougher than thought, they need the money for her wages (they actually have to get a loan from the bank under false pretense), they need to convince Manami's manager that they are really a production company (they break into an office and rearrange it one night), they need a film director and film crew to convince Manami she's in a film (they actually let other students pay to see the sex-action), and they need to get it up on time (Viagra). That their director thinks he's making serious art (pornographic art is still art, in this film as well as in real life) and that they repeatedly get kicked out of the sets they are shooting at further complicates matters.

And then Jason falls in love with Manami - and she with him -, and he doesn't want her to shoot porn anymore (but she keeps going on anyway). And the guys meet Manami's manager whom they thought to be her boyfriend dating another woman, and learn that he has looked through their scheme long ago but went along with it as long as the money is right - and all of a sudden they think he is making her a prostitute and beat him up (a bit of a double standard actually, whoever pays a woman for sex is making her a prostitute, not her pimp ... but the pimp sure helps).

Finally, they get their film done and have all had sex with Minami ... and Jason thinks he's something special to her - until he notices she has given all of his friends the exact same good-luck charm she has given him as a symbol of their love ...

 

If you haven't guessed it, A.V. is a light-weight sex comedy with the sex part very restrained (it all boils down to a few isolated topless scenes) and the comedy very good-natured for this kind of film (this is not a gross-out film). And even though the premise for the whole movie is very silly (and not the good kind of silly), the film somehow manages to work, maybe because it doesn't permanently go over the top (not necessarily a bad thing as such), doesn't every now and again resort to bad slapstick (necessarily a bad thing), or insults its audience's intelligence with way too many fart jokes (not one in this film), but keeps the story flowing at a gentle pace.

This all doesn't make A.V. a masterpiece of any sort, but it's a nice way to kill ca 100 minutes. And if you're in a relationship, this is a film you can even watch with your significant other ...

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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