Not to be confused with a similarly AKA-ed Loletta Lee vehicle of the same year, 1993's SWEET PEACH is a confusing and nasty slice of Category III in(s)anity, a far cry from the fun and frothy sex romp that reviews indicate constitutes its homonymic counterpart.
The plot is difficult to recall even a day after viewing, but centers largely around a young woman, Mei Li, who gets sucked into a thievery scheme by a charming suitor. While offering some shady insider trading tips to a couple wealthy women in his capacity as a stockbroker, he and Mei Li attempt to fleece the ladies out of their money. There's also something in there about running up debt in mahjong games and a weird tryst between a drunken restaurant patron and waiter, all of which comes messily to play in the third act.
Maybe it was just the copy I viewed, but SWEET PEACH is a mess. It's frequently difficult to tell who is doing what to whom (at least plot-wise; as a practical consideration they're mostly fornicating), or how one particular character relates to another. Transitions are rocky, with many temporal and logical leaps seeming the result of bad editing while others possibly owe to print damage or some kind of post-facto tampering. As for the "good stuff," there's plenty here, and it constitutes some fairly explicit grinding even by Category III standards, with lots graphic humping and loving close-ups of various bushy pudenda.
While this surfeit of sleaze should render the film appealing enough for less-discerning trash hounds, there's little else to recommend it, and the film's extreme obscurity makes it in no way worth the trouble of tracking down. I watched it via a semi-corrupted VCD rip, which led my media player to crash several times and necessitated skipping 30-second chunks on occasion. I'd like to give the film the benefit of the doubt and assume this contributed to my problems following it, but I'm fairly confident these missing sections wouldn't have made a lick of difference. It does end with an out-of-left-field kung fu fight, though, so it's got that going for it.
The plot is difficult to recall even a day after viewing, but centers largely around a young woman, Mei Li, who gets sucked into a thievery scheme by a charming suitor. While offering some shady insider trading tips to a couple wealthy women in his capacity as a stockbroker, he and Mei Li attempt to fleece the ladies out of their money. There's also something in there about running up debt in mahjong games and a weird tryst between a drunken restaurant patron and waiter, all of which comes messily to play in the third act.
Maybe it was just the copy I viewed, but SWEET PEACH is a mess. It's frequently difficult to tell who is doing what to whom (at least plot-wise; as a practical consideration they're mostly fornicating), or how one particular character relates to another. Transitions are rocky, with many temporal and logical leaps seeming the result of bad editing while others possibly owe to print damage or some kind of post-facto tampering. As for the "good stuff," there's plenty here, and it constitutes some fairly explicit grinding even by Category III standards, with lots graphic humping and loving close-ups of various bushy pudenda.
While this surfeit of sleaze should render the film appealing enough for less-discerning trash hounds, there's little else to recommend it, and the film's extreme obscurity makes it in no way worth the trouble of tracking down. I watched it via a semi-corrupted VCD rip, which led my media player to crash several times and necessitated skipping 30-second chunks on occasion. I'd like to give the film the benefit of the doubt and assume this contributed to my problems following it, but I'm fairly confident these missing sections wouldn't have made a lick of difference. It does end with an out-of-left-field kung fu fight, though, so it's got that going for it.
