Bugis Street (1995)

Innocent and naive, the 17-year-old Lian is a maid to a rich family in Malaysia, whose sheltered existence is shattered when she is sent to work at a small hotel near Bugis Street in neighbouring Singapore. Having to live with the transvestites and transexuals who make her living on the streets, Lian soon learns about another side of life. **A Hong Kong-Singapore co-production directed by Yonfan about the lives of Singaporean transvestites in a bygone era, this was a minor hit at the box office with a sexually-explicit R(A) rating, male full-frontal nudity and its nostalgic evocation of a seedy but colourful aspect of Singaporean culture, prior to the redevelopment of Bugis Street into a modern shopping district and the eradication of transvestite activities in the area. Edit Translation

• English
• magyar / magyar nyelv
• dansk
• Norsk