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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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.
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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!
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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.
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Almost 20 years later, we still measure women against Sung Hi’s impossible standards. Quite telling about quality of this true siren.
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Where Can I find the latest pictures of SHL?
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