Bugis Street (1995)
Bugis Street (1995)
Plot.
Set during the 1960s in Singapore, when Bugis Street was the centre for drag clubs and transvestite prostitution. The story centres on Lian, a young 16-year-old from Malacca, who gets a job as a recep-tionist at the Sin-Sin Hotel. It’s the home of a gaggle of drag queens, all of whom have stories of broken hearts and drunken sailors. Lian learns more about life, lipstick and eyeliner than most—mainly from Drago, a Paris-based drag queen, back in town to look after her ailing mother.
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Cast & Crew.
Michael Lam Wai-Leung
Meng
Hiep Thi Le
Lian
Greg-o
Drago
Gerald Chen
Mrs. Hwee
Ernest Seah
Lola
Matthew Foo
Dr. Toh
Yonfan
Director
Benedict Goh
Sing
Fruit Chan
Writer
David Knight
Sailor
Yuo Chan
Writer
Kelvin Lua
Drago's Boyfriend
Maggie Lye
Maggie
Lily Siew Lin Ong
Drago's Mother
Godfrey Yew
Mr. Wong
Jacky Tang
Director of Photography
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
Bugis Street (妖街皇后) is a 1995 Hong Kong-Singapore co-production directed by Yonfan, about the lives of Singaporean transvestites in a bygone era. It was a minor hit at the box office with a sexually-explicit R(A) (in short as Restricted (Artistic)) 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.
In 2015, the restored version of the film was presented at the 26th Singapore International Film Festival as Bugis Street Redux.
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