Movie: Sex: My British Job

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Hsiao-Hung Pai
Hsiao-Hung Pai

Undercover reporter

Nick Broomfield
Nick Broomfield

Himself

Madame Mary
Madame Mary

Brothel boss

Mustafa
Mustafa

Mary's boyfriend

Ling Ling
Ling Ling

Brothel madam

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    Nick Broomfield met Hsiao Hung Pai, a journalist who was working for the Guardian, when making his feature film 'Ghosts' (about the Morecambe Bay Chinese Cockle Pickers ). As an experiment and using the latest in undercover technology, Nick worked with Hsiao to make a Undercover film set in a Chinese brothel in Finchley. There are over 2000 'illegal' brothels in London,largely ignored by the police and the authorities, which employ 80% foreign nationals, mostly illegal, that are easily exploited by the brothel owners.

  • Release Date

    2013-09-23

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    5.4

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    English普通话
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