Robotrix
1991 Hong Kong film by Jamie Luk
title: "Robotrix" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1991-films", "1990s-cantonese-language-films", "films-set-in-hong-kong", "hong-kong-science-fiction-films", "martial-arts-science-fiction-films", "sexploitation-films", "techno-thriller-films", "fiction-about-transhumanism", "transhumanism-in-film", "films-about-androids", "cyberpunk-films", "films-about-cyborgs", "films-about-artificial-intelligence", "films-about-consciousness-transfer", "1991-hong-kong-films", "1991-science-fiction-films", "science-fiction-erotica"] description: "1991 Hong Kong film by Jamie Luk" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotrix" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0
::summary 1991 Hong Kong film by Jamie Luk ::
::data[format=table title="Infobox film"]
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | Robotrix |
| image | Robotrix promotional material for mytv super.jpg |
| director | Jamie Luk Kin-ming |
| producer | Henry Chan |
| writer | Jamie Luk |
| So Man-Sing | |
| based_on | |
| starring | Amy Yip |
| David Wu |
Chung Lin Billy Chow Hui Hsiao-dan | | music | Jim Yeung Siu Hung Yeung | | cinematography | Jim Yeung | | editing | Peter Cheung Ng Wang Hung | | studio | Golden Harvest Paragon Films Ltd. | | distributor | Golden Harvest | | released | | | runtime | 97 minutes | | country | Hong Kong | | language | Cantonese | | gross | HK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong) | ::
| name = Robotrix | image = Robotrix promotional material for mytv super.jpg
| alt = | caption = | director = Jamie Luk Kin-ming | producer = Henry Chan | writer = Jamie Luk So Man-Sing | screenplay = | story = | based_on = | narrator = | starring = Amy Yip David Wu
Chung Lin Billy Chow Hui Hsiao-dan | music = Jim Yeung Siu Hung Yeung | cinematography = Jim Yeung | editing = Peter Cheung Ng Wang Hung | studio = Golden Harvest Paragon Films Ltd. | distributor = Golden Harvest | released = | runtime = 97 minutes | country = Hong Kong | language = Cantonese | budget = | gross = HK$5,486,008 (Hong Kong) Robotrix (Chinese 女机械人 pinyin: nǚ jīxièrén "Woman Robot") is a 1991 Hong Kong science fiction exploitation film directed by Jamie Luk Kin-ming and produced by the Golden Harvest Company. Bill Lui, the winner of the 23rd Hong Kong Film Awards (Best Art Direction), is the Art Director of this film. It features the voluptuous soft-porn star Amy Yip, Taiwanese-American actor David Wu, Japanese actress , kung fu expert Billy Chow, and Hui Hsiao-dan. The plot concerns a female police officer who is gunned down, only to have her mind transferred into a cyborg clone. The idea of mind uploading as well as some cult elements inside the film make Robotrix become a science fiction film classic in Hong Kong.
This erotic R-rated thriller is notable for a Hong Kong film on general release in featuring frequent female full-frontal nudity, and is particularly notable for a scene of brief full-frontal male nudity (of Hong Kong Chinese actor Chung Lin, playing the robot version of Japanese scientist Ryuichi Yamamoto), as it is perhaps the first time in Hong Kong cinema that a Chinese adult male's genitals have been fully revealed on camera in a film for general release. It was also perhaps notable for leading the way in Hong Kong category 3 martial arts films. Cast member Vincent Lyn said of the film, "Now that was one wild shoot. The cast and crew were all over the place and you were lucky to find out what you were doing before the cameras rolled. I spent more time laughing on the set than anything else."
Plot
A criminally insane scientist, Ryuichi Sakamoto (Chung Lin), transfers his mind into a cyborg and immediately commits a series of rapes and murders. Among his victims is female police officer Selena Lin (Chikako Aoyama). The scientist Dr. Sara (Hui Hsiao-dan) transfers Selena's mind into a cyborg named Eve-27, including Sara's robotic assistant named Ann (Amy Yip), the cyborg-robot team join the police force and pursue the criminal Sakamoto by investigating a series of murdered prostitutes. After Selena/Eve-27 have sexual relations with her policeman boyfriend Chou (David Wu), Ann become curious about human sexual activity, but without human mind Ann is not capable to know further...
Cast
- Amy Yip – Ann
- David Wu – Chou
- – Selena Lin/Eve-27
- Billy Chow – Ryuichi Sakamoto's cyborg
- Chung Lin – Ryuichi Sakamoto
- Hui Hsiao-dan – Doctor Sara
- – Puppy
- Bowie Wu – Police Commissioner
- – Informer Hui
Box office
The film grossed HK$5,486,008 at the Hong Kong box office during its theatrical run from 31 May to 13 June 1991 in Hong Kong.
Blu-ray reprint
This film was first released on Blu-ray Disc on March 27, 2020. Then on November 11, 2024, online boutique movie store Shoutfactory released a Blu-Ray Disc of “Robotrix” as a part of its Golden Harvest compilation release called “Golden Harvest Vol. 1 Supernatural Shockers.”
References
References
- "Robotrix at Hong Kong Cinemagic".
- "Robotrix at the HKMDB".
- (1991). "Robotrix in Hong Kong Film Archive".
- (12 February 2019). "《銃夢》式科幻題材港產片一早有，《女機械人》成人情節可圈可點".
- (2005). "Contemporary Cinema". Indiana University Press.
- Staff. (2004). "The Scarecrow Movie Guide". Sasquatch Books.
- (1996). "Sex and Zen & a Bullet in the Head". Simon and Schuster.
- (2001). "Great Martial Arts Movies: From Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan— and More". Citadel Press.
- (2007). "Robotrix (2000)". [[The New York Times]].
::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::