page_title: Hollywood Hong Kong
section_title: Plot
hierarchical_section_title: Hollywood Hong Kong / Plot
caption_attribution_description: Tai Hom Village Shops
context_page_description: Hollywood Hong Kong is a 2001 Hong Kong film directed by Fruit Chan, with screenplay written by Kei To Lam. It is the second instalment of his "prostitution trilogy" which Chan directed from 2000–02. The other two movies in the trilogy are Durian Durian and Three Husbands.
  Chan is known for his disassociation with the mainstream Chinese cinema and this film continues that legacy with the use of little-known actors and dark humour.
context_section_description: The story takes place in Tai Hom Village, a small Hong Kong shantytown that is literally and figuratively overshadowed by a large apartment and mall complex called Plaza Hollywood. The movie begins with pig butcher, Mr. Chu (Glen Chin) and his sons, Tiny (Leung Sze Ping) and Ming (Ho Sai Man) who are all obese.  Keung (Won You Nam), also a resident of the town, is preoccupied with internet porn which leads him to meet Mainland Chinese prostitute Hung Hung (Zhou Xun), who advertises her services online and whom he pays for a night of torrid sex in the bushes outside Plaza Hollywood.  
  Hung Hung slowly infiltrates the lives of the town's characters, befriending Chu's family, especially Tiny.  She goes by the alternative name of Tong Tong.  At first, Tong Tong seems a refreshing, welcoming presence in the depressing, mundane life of Chu's family.  Nevertheless, after Tong Tong seduces Ming for sex, the light, almost happy dynamic of the movie begins to shift and Tong Tong's "sweet innocence" is replaced by an opportunistic bitterness.  
  Tong Tong disappears from the town and sends letters to Ming and Keung claiming statutory rape as she is allegedly under sixteen. She extorts them for money to avoid legal repercussions and jail. When Keung refuses payment he is chased down by gangsters and his hand hacked off and flung far away. In a sick twist of black humour, Tiny finds what he believes to be Keung's hand and a quack doctor re-attaches it, only to find that it is the wrong hand. Angered, Keung joins Ming and with machetes they run to Plaza Hollywood to track down Tong Tong.  But by the time Tong Tong is long gone. In a fit of despair Keung commands Ming to cut his wrongly attached hand off.  In the end no one's story ends happily. Tong Tong however allegedly makes her way to the real Hollywood.
caption: Tai Hom Village in 1999
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