Soap Girl [SEP] director
Soap Girl
Soap Girl is a 2002 drama film directed by Young Man Kang, a Korean-born filmmaker who made his U.S. directing debut Cupid's Mistake.
Plot.
A seemingly innocent woman becomes involved in the netherworld of massage parlors in this drama. Maya (Kerry Liu) is a young Asian woman who arrives one day at a seedy massage parlor in a run-down neighborhood in Los Angeles. Dressed in shabby clothes and speaking in broken English, she asks Mamasan (Tomiko Lee), who runs
soap. Each bar of soap has a story behind it.
- Kousuke Atari as a Japanese Singer
Production.
The film was invested in part by Taipei tourism bureau.
Director Hsiao Ya-chuan said that he got inspiration for Doris's character when he visited a coffee shop in Shanghai, where he witnessed a French girl with short hair devoting "her full attention to making desserts at the counter". Hsiao also said that he wanted to deliver the idea of "making exchanges without using money" because