''Girls Without Tomorrow'' aka. ''Call Girl '88'' (應召女郎1988) is a 1988
Hong Kong film
The cinema of Hong Kong ( zh, t=香港電影) is one of the three major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China and the cinema of Taiwan. As a former British colony, British Hong Kong, Hong Kong had a gr ...
directed by
David Lam Tak Luk
David Lam Tak-luk () is a Hong Kong
Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China (abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a List of cities in China, city and Special adm ...
and
Wong Chi.
It was followed by a sequel in 1992: ''
Girls Without Tomorrow 1992''.
Plot
Female actress Jenny (Maggie Cheung) is actually a high-class escort; Mei-Feng (Fung Bo-Bo) chooses to become a prostitute to pay her husband’s medical bills; Shan-Shan (Carrie Ng) unwillingly becomes a prostitute to pay her mother’s medical bills; Ling-Yu (Elsie Chan) is Shan-Shan’s optimistic roommate.
Cast and roles
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Elsie Chan Elsie may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Elsie (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
* Lily Elsie (1886–1952), English actress and singer born Elsie Hodder
* Robert Elsie (1950–2017), Canadian expert in Albania ...
– Ling-Yu
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Maggie Cheung
Maggie Cheung Man-yuk (; born 20 September 1964) is a Hong Kong former actress. Raised in Hong Kong and Britain, she started her career after placing second in 1983's Miss Hong Kong Pageant. She achieved critical success in the late 1980s and in ...
– Jenny Lin
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Fung Bo-Bo
Petrina Fung Bo Bo (born 30 October 1954) is a Malaysian-born Chinese actress in Hong Kong. Fung is known for the 1994 film ''C'est la vie, mon chéri''.
Early life
On October 30, 1954, Fung was born in Malaysia. Fung's father is Fung Fung, ...
– Mei-Feng / Tsui Tsui
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Stanley Fung
Stanley Fung Shui-fan (born June 1, 1945) is a Hong Kong actor and film director known for playing comedic roles. He was one of the Lucky Stars.
Career
In 1967, Fung became an actor in Hong Kong films. Fung first appeared in To Rose with L ...
– Fang
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Lau Siu-Ming
Lau or LAU may refer to:
People
* Lau (surname)
* Liu (劉/刘), a common Chinese family name transliterated Lau in Cantonese and Hokkien
* Lau clan, one of the Saraswat Brahmin clans of Punjab
* LAU (musician): Laura Fares
Places
* Lebanese ...
– Ling-Yu's Godfather
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Alan Chui Chung-San
Chui Chung-San (often known as Shu Zhong Xin, Hsu Zhong-Xin or Alan Hsu; 16 August 1952 – 2 November 2022) was a Hong Kong actor, director, choreographer, martial artist and stuntman. He was known for being an action director and stuntman. Ch ...
– Brother Two
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Lin Chung – Uncle Yen
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Carrie Ng
Carrie Ng (born 1963) is a Hong Kong actress well known for both Category-III cult and mainstream films. She won Best Actress at the 1993 Golden Horse Film Festival awards for her performance in ''Remains of a Woman'' and Best Supporting Actre ...
– Shan-Shan
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Kent Tong
Kent Tong (; born 29 September 1958) is a Hong Kong actor. He was a popular TVB actor during the 1980s, nicknamed "Prince" and one of the "Five Tiger Generals" of TVB.
Early life
Kent Tong was born to and grew up in a poor family in Hong Kong. His ...
– Television Actor
See also
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Prostitution in Hong Kong
Prostitution in Hong Kong is itself legal, but organised prostitution is illegal, as there are laws against keeping a vice establishment, causing or procuring another to be a prostitute, living on the prostitution of others, or public solicitatio ...
External links
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HK cinemagic entry
Hong Kong drama films
1988 films
Films directed by David Lam
1980s Hong Kong films
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