I cross the same roads as Susie Wong did, the same cafes, the same club ... nowadays it is just susie wong road.
For the ones that do not know, the World of Suzie Wong is a 1957 novel written by Richard Mason, which has been adapted into a play, a hit film, and a ballet.
The book is about a young Englishman, Robert Lomax, who has just decided to pursue a new career as an artist. He visits Hong Kong in search of inspiration where he checks into the Nam Kok Hotel, not realising, at first, that it is an unofficial brothel catering mainly to British and American sailors. However, the discovery of that fact only makes the hotel more charming in Lomax's opinion and a better source of subject matter for his paintings. He quickly befriends most of the hotel's bargirls but is most fascinated by the archetypal "hooker with a heart of gold" ...
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Vi o filme. Foi muito bom na época, uma referência e uma início de abertura para um pouco de cultura do extremo oriente. Os ocidentais, as gueixas, o amor.
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