Throwback Thursday – Sunghi Lee’s Striptease from A Night On the Water

Based on the 1995 novel by Kim Jae-sik and shot in Vancouver, Canada by a Korean production company, the 1998 film A Night On the Water was Playboy model Sunghi Lee’s first and only starring film role. The story flashes back to follow the tale told by a recently canned hotshot investment trader who meets a hooker named Phoebe (Sunghi), who believes she’s a killer whale stuck in that Playboy model’s body.

Despite the film being considered a turkey by most B-movie pundits, the above steamy striptease Sunghi’s Phoebe character gives shortly after the pair meet, makes Melanie Griffith’s dance as “Holly” in 1984′s Body Double, seem lukewarm, at best. Sunghi’s sexy performance, combined with some awesomely bad acting from the supporting cast, is testament to why yours truly believes A Night On the Water is a movie worthy of cult status.

As many readers of this site already know, Sunghi, now 44, shut down her website in 2011 and retired from modeling and acting. She now lives a domestic life in Southern California. For those interested, the song she’s grooving to here is “Keep Me In Your Mind,” released in 1996 by Bulgarian singer Carolina, who now resides in the “Whatever Happened to..?” file.

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  1. Avatar of Denver11

    Cool. I posted that clip on Dailymotion. MN1110 is me. :)

    Yeah, the movie is not that great, but it is a cult classic. Sung Hi wasn’t too bad in it, considering she hadn’t acted too much before that. Others in the cast are truly awful though. No movie can’t be that bad with a naked Sung Hi in it.

  2. Avatar of arf

    Just downright dirty and delicious. She’s an absolute siren.

  3. o'grady’s avatar

    I’ll never forget seeing sung hi in one of the playboys back in the day. I think I still have it somewhere. even though her boobs are implants they’re perfect. and those nipples are amazing. top all that with her beautiful face and you got yourself a siren. the only weird thing was that she never really looked great on film for some reason. I always thought she looked kind of trashy on film. could be because she played strippers and bimbos, but… I still think she’s one of the hottest Asians.

  4. Avatar of HammockGuru

    I hold Sung Hi Lee responsible for my addiction to Asian women. The first time I saw a photo of her…

  5. Avatar of Guest Poster

    You could say that Sung Hi was largely responsible for the birth of the original Asian Sirens web site more than 17 years ago now (wow!).

  6. CEC’s avatar

    Dr. Lee wrote:
    You could say that Sung Hi was largely responsible for the birth of the original Asian Sirens web site more than 17 years ago now (wow!).

    ….and here’s what’s left of it: https://www.asian-sirens.net/news.html

  7. Avatar of Romanticwarrior

    Yes, Sung Hi was certainly one of the ladies who opened the Asian door for me. Beautiful woman.

  8. JayCee’s avatar

    I remember helping her and her husband at work a few years back. She was really down to earth and looked absolutely stunning even while dressed down and with no make up on. A true “natural beauty” in every sense of the word. She even appreciated it when I said that I was a big fan of her work, but I don’t think her husband appreciated that comment because he kept on giving me this dirty look up until they left my office.

    I also ran into her recently and she still looks like she hasn’t aged a day!

  9. Avatar of The-Dean

    CEC,

    Wow, that’s a real blast from the past.

    Another fan of Sung Hi here. But, while I think her implants are perfectly sized, they still have a bit of the bolt-on look (it’s a spacing issue, I think)—and I’m not a fan of that style. Still Sung Hi is so beautiful it is only a minor issue.

  10. wknight40’s avatar

    She had a Playboy video years ago smearing a star fruit and a mango I believe all over her beautiful body. Of course it does not come up on youtube.

  11. Avatar of LoveAsianWomen

    SIREN!

    My profile picture is her very best photograph, EVER!

    Sorry, I interjected so many words since many don’t care for my comments.

  12. Avatar of QuantumForce

    I remember when she played a reporter in an episode of Lost. In the episode, she was standing in front of one of Hurley’s chicken restaurants when it was hit by a meteorite, killing her (well, her character). :(

  13. Avatar of wingsfan19

    Denver11 wrote:
    Cool.I posted that clip on Dailymotion. MN1110 is me.

    Yeah,the movie is not that great,but it is a cult classic. Sung Hi wasn’t too bad in it,considering she hadn’t acted too much before that. Others in the cast are truly awful though. No movie can’t be that bad with a naked Sung Hi in it.

    No truer words were ever stated than your last sentence.

  14. Avatar of wingsfan19

    Except for the double negative part.

  15. Avatar of wylde8

    Those were the days. Sung Hi is timeless in my opinion.

  16. Avatar of EnigmaticJack

    I love Korean women, love/like Korean movies, downloaded this movie..had no idea what it was about….had no idea it was Sunghi…..who I’m in lust with, had been since I saw her in Pacific USA calendar. And I agree, for some reason she doesn’t look quite right in movies. Oh, and I had the video of her rubbing mango all over her body that was mentioned earlier.

  17. Avatar of arf

    My gosh how I love her mangos.

  18. Avatar of daznlover

    Denver11, you deserve a big thank you!

    So the original AS community started back in 1997 or 1998… I remember Robin for a short while, but he hasn’t come back in years, nor Thanirz.

    Sunghli Lee deserves a special award, on the AS 20 years reunion. :)

  19. Avatar of Denver11

    I still think Sung Hi is the best Asian Siren ever. No one has come close. I was a member of her site until the end. She was always great to interact with in her chats and always answered her emails. Still does. I was sad when she stopped, but knew it would end sooner or later especially after she became a mom.

  20. Avatar of wingsfan19

    It was searching for photos of Sung Hi Lee that I first found Thanirz’s House of Sirens, which morphed into this site. IMHO, SHL has the best side boobs ever.

  21. Nik2’s avatar

    Almost 20 years later, we still measure women against Sung Hi’s impossible standards. Quite telling about quality of this true siren.

  22. Avatar of Guest Poster

    I have to say: Sung Hi is what brought me to AS as well, but to say that she’s still on a higher plane than all other Asian Sirens is IMHO not truly objective. One of the very best for sure, but in a class of her own? No.

  23. Korean Y’s avatar

    Where Can I find the latest pictures of SHL?

  24. Avatar of Guest Poster

    Korean Y,

    Given that she’s been retired for many years now, I don’t think there are any ‘latest pictures’. :)

  25. Avatar of Daphne-Yana

    Wow..i have know about her before..she is nice girl..i still new in modelling…i remember one actress before was so nice to..hsu qi..

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