La Lingerie
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| Directed by | Chan Hing-Kai Janet Chun |
| Produced by | Chan Hing-Kai Amy Chin |
| Written by | Chan Hing-Kai Janet Chun |
| Starring |
Stephy Tang Janice Man JJ Jia Kathy Yuen Ronald Cheng |
| Music by | Chiu Tsang-Hei |
| Cinematography | Wong Wing-Hung |
| Edited by | Cheung Ka-Kit |
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Icon Pictures
One Hundred Years of Film Co. Ltd. |
| Distributed by | China Star Entertainment Group |
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118 minutes |
| Country | Hong Kong |
| Language | Cantonese |
| Box office | US$1,237,565 |
La Lingerie (内衣少女, Noi Yee Siu Nü) is a 2008 Hong Kong film written and co-directed by Chan Hing-Kai and Janet Chun, and is a loose follow-up to Chan's 2001 debut La Brassiere. Stephy Tang heads the film's ensemble cast, which also includes Janice Man, J.J. Jia, Kathy Yuen and Ronald Cheng.
Aspiring designer Miu Ho is hired as a "Lingerie Researcher", and is given the task of finding out how lingerie makes the woman, or in some cases, the other way around. After her aunt Lara unexpectedly passes away, Miu and her cousin Donut inherit a spacious, fully furnished apartment filled with designer lingerie. The two girls live upstairs from Celine, a gold digging flight attendant who has had items of underwear stolen by a mysterious thief, and after reporting the incident to the authorities becomes involved with part-time police officer James Shum. Donut works in a lingerie shop, and is involved with a much older married man, Henry, who buys her a pink bra as his first gift. Bargirl CC is a customer at Donut's shop, and after meeting Harvard student Eugene believes that she may have found true love.
Still a virgin, Miu is determined not to end up like her unmarried aunt Lara, and resolves to find her first love. Her new colleagues warn her about the office lothario, marketing manager Lucas, but after a failed attempt to bed her the two instead become friends. Lucas tries to teach Miu how to attract men, which leads to a number of encounters with potential suitors, including sperm bank worker CY and writer Jack Dee. Eventually she ends up in a relationship with "Prince" Antonio, the narcissistic heir to her company, but an increasingly jealous Lucas realises that his feelings for Miu are genuine after all.
Written and co-directed by Chan Hing-Kai and Janet Chun, La Lingerie has its roots in Chan's 2001 debut, La Brassiere. Speaking of that film, Chan said that although "[w]e did a lot of research, especially on the female side... we only took the point of view of men!" In order to redress the imbalance, Chan and his colleagues decided to make a film that gave "the female point of view about underwear", though the story changed several times before settling on four young women who hang out in a lingerie shop. He denied that the film had been inspired by the success of Sex and the City, saying that he had yet to finish watching the show's first season. Actress Gigi Leung, who starred in both La Brassiere and its 2002 sequel Mighty Baby, reprised her role as Lena in a cameo appearance.
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