Soap Girl (2002)
A young Asian girl applies for a job at a massage parlor and is dragged into the seedy world of Hollywood's red light district, where she falls in love with a virgin poet.
- Date of release
- 2002-09-01
- TMDB
- 8.0 / 10 (2)
- Runtime
- 1h 30m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Young Man Kang
Casting
- Kaycee — Maya
- Luciano Saber — Harry Gomes
- Tomiko Lee — Mamasan
- Gina Hirazumi — Asia
- Kate Holliday — Sammy
- Hiromi Nishiyama — Jenna
Interesting facts
Soap Girl is a 2002 drama film directed by Young Man Kang, a Korean-born filmmaker who made his U.S. directing debut with Cupid's Mistake.
Production and release
The story was pitched to Director Kang, [which was] basically an intense, disturbing dark comedy about hijinks at a massage parlor involving geeky male virgins, gangsters and immigrants.
"So the story evolved away from the "Pretty Woman/Cinderella" story and into one that plays on the audience's expectations of Asian stereotypes. Maya turns out not to be an immigrant, though everyone in the beginning believes that she is. None of the massage girls are naive, innocent lambs with hearts of gold; [they] are simply trying to survive."
This film received the Audience Award at the 2002 Big Bear Lake International Film Festival.
Soap Girl had its theatrical release on December 6, 2002 in Los Angeles, and critical reaction was mixed and controversial.
"Soap Girl" has engendered the most vociferous pro-and-con arguments I've ever seen on the AsianAmericanFilm.com message boards.
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