Boys Are Easy (

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: 追男仔 ;

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: zhuī nán zǐ) also known as ''Chasing Boys'' is a 1993

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film directed by

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, it stars

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and

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. The film ran in theaters from 12 August 1993 until 1 September 1993. The film is separated into 3 different stories, a male prostitute falling in love with a violent police officer; a kind social worker falling in love with a gangster; a naive virgin falling in love with a doctor.

Plot

Ching Sing (

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) is a hardworking father. His wife died when their children were young so he spent most of his life taking care of his children. He has three daughters, Ching Siu Tung (

), Ching Siu Nam (

), Ching Siu Sze (

) and a son, Ching Siu Pei (

). Ching Sing wants his daughters to get married, so he fakes a terminal illness and forces them to get creative about their romantic relationships, asking to see their boyfriends over dinner. Siu Tung, who is a police officer, meets a male prostitute called Simon Tse Sai (

). She offers him money to be her boyfriend for one day to lie to her father. Simon accidentally falls in love with Siu Tung and tries everything to make her fall in love with him. After failing and embarrassing himself multiple times, Siu Tung finally falls in love with Simon. Siu Nam is a social worker. She meets a poor gangster called Wu Ying (

) and decides to help his family, but instead tries to join the underworld to impress him. Because of this, Wu Ying decides to leave the underworld and start a brand new life with her. Siu Sze, who is a doctor, meets 27-year-old virgin named Lee Chi Ko (

) through one of her female patients. Having been told that Chi Ko has been set up many time with different girls due to his fear of sex, Siu Sze pranks him by tempting him to have sex, but it fails. Siu Sze realizes that he cares about her a lot and they fall in love with each other. Over dinner having met all of the boyfriends, Ching Sing reveals that his long time pen pal Chi Sum Chan (

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) is coming to Hong Kong. Only after a few days, they already start to hate her because of her obvious schemes to steal their father's money. Gangsters break in to their house to try and murder Siu Tung but when they fail, they kidnap and leave with Sum Chan, not realizing that it only makes the family happy.

Cast

as Ching Siu Tung (程小东) - Ching Sing's daughter, falls in love with Simon, policewoman *

as Ching Siu Nam (程小南) - Ching Sing's daughter, falls in love with Wu Ying, social worker *

as Ching Siu Sze (程小西) - Ching Sing's daughter, falls in kive Chi Ko, doctor *

as Simon Tse Sai (谢晒) - Falls in love with Siu Tung, male prostitute *

as Wu Ying (乌英) - Falls in love with Siu Nam, gangster *

as Lee Chi Ko (李志高) - Falls in love with Siu Sze, naive, rich, 27 year old virgin *

as Ching Sing (程胜) - Father of Siu Tung, Siu Nam, Siu Sze and Siu Pei *

as Ching Siu Pei (程小北) - Ching Sing's son *

as Chi Sam (痴心) - Gets kidnapped at the end of the movie *

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as Wild Dog - Gangster *

Helena Law Lan Law Lan () MHAwarded in her original name Lo Yin-ying (born Lo Yin-ying (); 13 November 1934), is a veteran Hong Kong actress in both the film and TV industry. Career She first started out in the film industry in 1939, cast in antagonistic roles ...

as Mrs Wu - Wu Ying's mother *

Wu Fung Bowie Woo Fung (born 18 January 1932) is a Hong Kong veteran actor and director with family roots in Guangdong, China. A matinée idol in the 1950s and 1960s, he began his acting career in long form Cantonese films 1953, becoming an overnight succ ...

as Uncle Sai - Siu Tung, Siu Nam, Siu Sze and Siu Pei's uncle * Pak Yan as Miss Lee - Chi Ko's mother * Ronald Wong Ban as Chicken * Lee Siu-kei as Policeman at police station * Fei Pak as Policeman *

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as Hypnotist * Lee Ka-Ting as Bastard Ting * Wong Hung as Manager of gigolo club * Ray Pang as Wild Dog's thug * Wu Zhan-Peng as Wild Dog's thug * Kong Miu-Deng as Wild Dog's thug * Ching Kwok-Leung as Wild Dog's thug * Go Shut-Fung as Wild Dog's thug * Chan Ging-Chi as Wild Dog's thug

Critical response

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, it received an average rating of 6.5 out of 10 based on 234 reviews. On the Chinese movie review website,

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, it received an average rating of 7.2 out of 10 based on 10435 user reviews.

References

External links

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