• Director(s)

    Po Chih Leong

  • Production Year

    1987

  • Release date

    09/02/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    100m

  • Cast

    David Yip, Lucy Sheen, Robert Lee

Film

Ping Pong

brief sexualised nudity

Themes of racial and cultural identity mix with quirky humour as a young lawyer struggles to execute the will of a Chinese man found dead in a London phone box, in this poignant British comedy drama from 1987. …

Themes of racial and cultural identity mix with quirky humour as a young lawyer struggles to execute the will of a Chinese man found dead in a London phone box, in this poignant British comedy drama from 1987.

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violence

threat and horror

language

sex

discrimination

injury detail

nudity

theme

  • Director(s)

    Po Chih Leong

  • Production Year

    1987

  • Release date

    09/02/2024

  • Genre(s)

    Comedy

  • Approx. running minutes

    100m

  • Cast

    David Yip, Lucy Sheen, Robert Lee

brief sexualised nudity
Classified Date:
26/01/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Park Circus Limited
violence
A woman slaps a man in the face in a comic scene. A woman dreams of fighting with sticks against a gang of men in the style of classic Chinese martial arts films.
threat and horror
Characters panic as they rush to deal with a kitchen fire; a man briefly chases the person he blames for the fire with a meat cleaver in a comic scene. A car drives behind and alongside another at high speed in order to intimidate the driver.
language
There is mild bad language ('shit', 'piss', 'bastard') along with milder terms such as 'Christ' and 'damn'.
sex
Characters searching for a mystery woman make a brief visit to a sex shop, but we do not see detail within it. There are undetailed references to sex work and to adultery. Characters kiss and passionately embrace.
discrimination
There are dated discriminatory attitudes toward Chinese people. A Chinese man describes the white customers at the restaurant he works in as 'foreign devils'.
injury detail
A man's dead body is seen in close-up, slumped in a telephone box, and again later, repeatedly, in a coffin.
nudity
There is sight of sexualised female breast and buttock nudity in background pictures and film posters on display in a sex shop.
theme
Scenes of emotional upset include characters grieving or coming to terms with the loss of a loved one.
alcohol and tobacco
Characters get drunk, and frequently smoke cigarettes.
Classified Date:
13/07/1987
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Electric Pictures

  • Classified date

    26/01/2024