The emphasis on the reboot was to move the films away from their misogynistic roots and emphasis on male desire to focus on female subjectivity and desire outside the male gaze. At the centre of the film is celebrity artist and novelist, Kyoko Ami Tomite who takes pleasure in tormenting everyone around her, especially her docile, and would-be porno actress, assistant Noriko Mariko Tsutsui.
One of those children is Ford, a champion surfer, whose mother, Chona supposedly had him with Francis Ford Coppola himself thus the name , when she was just 14 years old. At the time the story begins, Ford has a new girlfriend, Fiona, who seems to have touched something very deep inside him. Furthermore, Rich seems to be testing his fiancee by making her take surfing lessons from Ford. The entertaining aspect is also stressed by a number of artistically shot but definitely steamy sex scenes, and the fact that most of the protagonists usually roam around half naked.
In that fashion, the film functions much as Hollywood productions in the setting of the beach. The script revolves around the lives and personalities of 5 AV actresses, their thoughts, dreams and on and off set issues, although the main lead is Kyoko, a makeup artist with a sympathetic ear, which tries to solve every kind of problem, while focused on making the girls look exactly as the director wants them to. In that aspect, Saki, who thinks she is ugly, is disappointed because she hardly ever gets picked in the auditions, Masako reminisces with a sense of nostalgia the time when she was the main lead and Masami acts like a star she whines when informed that she is having a lesbian scene, because she just had a manicure and everybody around her treats her so She gets to pick first which bento she is going to eat.
I have to admit though, Beni Ito, who plays the latter, is gorgeous. He died of a heroin overdose and loved writing supernatural stories. The six different stories take place in a single room, number 27 in Hotel Singapura, which actually symbolizes the country, and stretch from and the surrender of the British troops in Singapore to Japanese, to present times.
Eric Khoo had a very difficult task in his hands, since he only had 10 days to shoot a film that would function as a tribute to Damien Sin and his beliefs according to Khoo, he had had very strong political values and felt strongly for the underdog , a time journey capturing the multicultural history of Singapore, and the first erotic movie of the country.
