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Thank you!

That hentai/perverted detective trope has really been overused now. It's such a cheap form of comedy, I wish we could leave that kind of stuff in the past.

I've got no regrets not watching it then, lol!

I really wanted to like this but it was just too uneventful for me. Sure, it was sweet but nothing really happened. Cookie-cutter cuteness.

I torrented it!

Basically the sad (but visually enthralling) Taiwanese rendition of Black Swan, produced in the wake of the #metoo movement.

Here: https://www.dekkoo.com/videos/red-aninsri

I got the free trial to watch it, if I remember correctly!

Yay, thanks so much! Still wanted to watch this for sure!

It's a bit of a cult-classic but it didn't do much for me. I wouldn't go out of my way to recommend this to anyone.

"Her beauty is the sum of our desires."

A deliciously quotable social commentary about unachievable beauty-standards. An important movie, for sure, but it was also surprisingly long-winded. I wish they had cut the unnecessary scenes.

The symbolism is a bit on the nose-- but a decent watch nonetheless.

I either got the torrent somewhere or watched in on a Thai website (I'm assuming you'll be able to find it rather quickly by Googling the Thai title)!

Ah, thanks! I'm taking an indefinite hiatus from high school BL genre so I will be skipping that one. 😂

What's MSP, if I may ask?

You should write poetry.

For a movie that is said to have been instrumental in redefining the pink-film genre in Japan, this was surprisingly boring. The sex is the plot. This must have been controversial and groundbreaking in the 70s but I don't think it withstood the test of time.

That's what I was thinking as well lol! I interpreted the ending very much as a somewhat bittersweet declaration that dynasties, the desire for political power, and corruption will ever remain; they just change faces. The rule of the last emperor of China will be remembered as an important part of history (hence that brief scene of tourists visiting the palace) but the movie still implies we ought not to close our eyes to the less romantic reality of politics.

Outrageous, absurd, and perverted-- but still oddly funny.

Just be aware this a product of its time.

Feel you! 😂 All of a sudden that breastmilk scene makes a whole lot more sense.

Masculinity is an important theme is most of Miike's movies. I fail to see how me commenting on that would mean I should go and watch RuPaul's Drag Race.