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Gorgeous (1999)
★ 6.4 · 413 ratings on TMDB
She wanted adventure. In Hong Kong she found her match.
When Ah Bu, a girl from a small fishing town in Taiwan, finds a glass bottle with a romantic message, she travels to Hong Kong to find her prince charming. As it turns out, her prince charming, Albert, happens to be gay. But all is not lost when Ah Bu meets the dashing Chi Wu. Meanwhile, Ah Bu's boyfriend from Taiwan comes looking for her, as the action and romance follow Ah Bu back to Taiwan.
DirectorVincent Kok Tak-Chiu
The emergence reading
Gorgeous keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
zero-distanceHK
Same rung, same subject
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Same subject, different rung
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