Profile | Adult film legend Amy Yip, star of Sex and Zen and Erotic Ghost Story, bares all about her soft porn career in Hong Kong
- Now 57, Yip established herself as the first big star of category III movies in Hong Kong in her 20s before going on to become the city’s most famous sex bomb
- A recent showbiz party made her realise how much she misses acting and she says she has already been given a script that was written especially for her
It has been 30 years since Amy Yip Chi-mei last appeared in a movie, and for much of that time the star of Hong Kong films such as Erotic Ghost Story and Sex and Zen has kept herself out of the public eye.
By all reasoning, hers would already be a name long forgotten by a fickle industry and certainly one that young millennial and Gen Z movie-goers would not recognise.
But Yip is no ordinary Hong Kong actress. During the most prolific era of Hong Kong films – when actresses like Dodo Cheng were making nine movies simultaneously and directors were churning out triad action, cheap comedies and exploitative porn like there was no tomorrow – Yip managed to establish herself as the first star of category III soft porn, without even baring a nipple.
It is to Yip’s credit that even after her long absence, the increasing public sightings of her of late have generated buzz and excitement over the possibility of a comeback.
Now 57, Yip is still stunning. Her smooth, tanned skin shows little of the ravages of age. Her diminutive 1.6-metre (5ft 3in) frame is clad in tight trousers and a form-sitting midriff top that shows she is still bestowed with that famous bosom and notoriously small waistline. She is happy, she tells me, that she can still fit into her clothes from her heyday.
She hesitates to call her reappearance in the public eye a comeback.
