Yes, it was released before the scandal. And no announcement about cancelling disc/digital releases so far.
What people do in their private lives is none of your freaking business in their public lives. Perhaps you and all the other Asian "netizen" losers should get lives of your own so you'll have something worth-while to pay attention to.
How old are you? 10? Affairs ARE normal, have been around for thousands of years and unless some kind of crime was committed, have zero bearing on the value or quality of an entertainer's product.
Assuming you ARE older than ten, how about YOU? Have you had an affair? More than one? How do we know? Can you prove you haven't? If you can't, then consider STFU and drop the assumption that you're in a position to pass judgement on anyone's behavior but your own.
I don't know where you live, but your attitude on this is a huge reason behind the tragic number of suicides in the Korean entertainment industry.
Generally, I agree with you. It's obvious that high school pupils have their sexual desires and even first experiences.…
Exactly. And that is why I watch very few films of any genre out of China. Just recently, I tried a couple Chinese flicks because an actor I liked in a movie from before the ban was in them. But both were WW2 flicks, and so full of propaganda and bullshit I couldn't stand it. "City of Life and Death" is awesome, but screw watching anything dramatic out of that wasteland. It all has this sanitized feel to it; intensity and desire is tamped down.
What are u expecting from two high school boys who lived in the era of around 2000 in the asian country??? Please…
Who said anything about "erotic gay romance?" But thanks for the tell that you're another MDL prude.
And what? You think gay high school boys in 2000 in China didn't have sexual desires, and that they never expressed them? Get real. No, I do not respect this show for "portraying the breeze of our past self," whatever the hell that means. There's no "past" about it. The fact of continued censorship of gay-themed material by the Chinese government is very much a problem of the "present."
Quite possibly the most laugh-out-loud funny and enderaing first episode of any BL ever.
"Candy?" "Yes. I keep it in my pocket. If you'd like to eat some, come see me any time." hahahaha...lol...omg
I don't know how this show can match the wonder of episode1 with each succeeding episode, but I sure hope it does.
Toki Kanade is, apparently, a comic genius, as well as being incredibly sexy/hot/handsome. Not a lot of actors who can convey a character who is equal parts bad-boy thug and middle-school fangirl, crushing on her teacher. The way he uses that handsome rubber face to make all kinds of expressions I wasn't expecting is spectacular. Kizu Takumi's role is much less slap-stick but he seems perfect for it, and the Third Year nerd is as hot and funny in his own way as is Kanade.
I do wonder if the director chickened out a bit by casting such a youthful actor in the role of the teacher, so as to comfort pervs like the commenter below who is worried this show might be about a "pedo." Good god. By casting an actor as the teacher who could just as easily be playing a student, the visual impact of even a slight age gap is eliminated, which is too bad. So what if the characters are five years apart? I hope the show as a whole doesn't ultimately back away from the age difference.
But I digress...this thing is funnier than hell. Also endearing and original-feeling. It's not often we get a butch, BL romantic lead who isn't afraid of the gay crush he is experiencing.
I'm reading all the positive comments and i wanna watch but the premise is quite irky, does this give off pedo…
Dear god, again with the ignorant, MDL "pedo" bullshit.
Since you obviously don't care to do so yourself, I'll educate you: "Pedophilia" is very specifically defined as involving an adult and a PRE-PUBESCENT CHILD. If you don't know what "pre-pubescent" means, look it up. I like to define it as "pre-pubes" to make it easy for people like you to understand.
Does the high school student in this show look like he does or does not have pubes? Answer: He does. Therefore, this is in no way, shape, or form a show involving pedophilia.
Total gay-bait, homo-hating, censored Chinese romance bullshit. The people who eat this up have serious internalized homophobia issues.
Overall message of this series: Gay relationships are so revolting, sick, perverse, immoral, and contrary to healthy cultural norms that the best we can show here is two best friends who act kind of gay once in a while, but without ever, in any way, credibly displaying gay affection.
Wasn‘t he killed in prison as ordered by the father of one of the guys he killed?
Was this right near the end? Oh well, even so, it would be easy to write in a reason why the counselor survives a prison stay. Maybe he comes out with a limp from a failed assault. Who knows? :D Would be a great sequel.
Wow. This thing is a riot! It left me amused, entertained, and seriously turned on.
It works magnificently as a parody of: Japanese politics Samurai/death cult/macho/hara kiri/bullshit Gay pornography Gay romance Group-think and much more...
This was made in Korea, not China, and at the time it was made, there had already been a number of feature films…
BUT IT HAS TEN BILLION VIEWS FROM CHINA, AND THOSE ARE ALL CLOSETED, GAY, CHINESE VIEWERS WHO CAUGHT ALL THE OBVIOUS, HOT GAY CODING AND ROMANCE AND THUS TUNED IN MULTIPLE TIMES!!!!!!!! :D
This was made in Korea, not China, and at the time it was made, there had already been a number of feature films…
1. So pathetic you consider three and a half short paragraphs to be more than you can bear to read. No wonder you're so dim-witted.
2. Adding "literally" to your statements doesn't make them stronger, it just makes you sound stupid. Is there a way to be "non-literally gay?"
3. Lots of gay people suffer from internalized homophobia. YOUR internalized homophobia explains why you find watching gay-censored programming fulfilling.
4. Your disinterest in reading more than a sentence or two likely explains your ignorance.
What am I saying? I'm sure you can't bear to read past the word "So..." above in this comment.
This was made in Korea, not China, and at the time it was made, there had already been a number of feature films…
Typical response of a homophobic fangirl like you, who thinks high viewership = quality. What's even sicker is that ALL of those ten billion views came from inside China, where stupid straight people who don't know what they're watching, and self-hating gays, desperate for ANYTHING that even hints at being gay, watched this nightgowns and sword fights joke of a show.
Why any healthy gay person would watch a live-action show in which the plot tells them over and over that gay love/affection/sex is SO incredibly nasty, gross, and immoral, that it can't be shown on the screen even when that love is the heart of the story. Imagine a relationship in the real world, gay, straight or otherwise, in which the partners never hug, kiss, or make love and then tell me you'd see that as healthy and fulfilling. If you say you would, you're lying.
And yet that is what The Untamed dishes up over, and over, and over. It would be interesting to know how many views this thing would have garnered if gay love wasn't censored out of everything in China. If Chinese people could watch depictions of steamy, real gay love, would they watch this trash? There's no way to know but I'm hoping not.
Where do YOU live, btw? Thankfully, I live in the U.S., where anything goes onscreen, and we like it that way.
Wow. That's some nihilistic shit, right there. Extremely well-done nihilistic shit. I had no stomach for Hollywood films this violent, but the Koreans do something entirely different with the genre and it has made me a fan of these Yakuza/murder/thugs/gangs/crooked cops type movies. Not entirely how to sum it up, but I think it's in the characterizations overall. I find something to like in even the most loathsome characters and that makes me give a shit about what's happening to them, even when they get what they deserve, a few bullets to the brain or a knife to the gut. Oh, and usually, the fight scenes, car chase scenes, and otherwise bloody violence is incredibly choreographed to look absolutely real. Not currently familiar with the work of Uhm Tae Goo, but I am going to make myself so. He was outstanding here. That raspy voice alone is incredibly sexy and interesting. Funny...he looks like a boy scout in his bio pic above. Cha Sueng Won and Park Ho San are sensational, as always. Both excel at bringing nuances and specifics of character to their roles. I have yet to feel like either is repeating a character, and I've seen both in a lot of films.
For its genre, this is a 9/10 for me. Highly recommended.
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How old are you? 10? Affairs ARE normal, have been around for thousands of years and unless some kind of crime was committed, have zero bearing on the value or quality of an entertainer's product.
Assuming you ARE older than ten, how about YOU? Have you had an affair? More than one? How do we know? Can you prove you haven't? If you can't, then consider STFU and drop the assumption that you're in a position to pass judgement on anyone's behavior but your own.
I don't know where you live, but your attitude on this is a huge reason behind the tragic number of suicides in the Korean entertainment industry.
Two momentary highlights, both involving Sorn's bare ass: About ten minutes in and then again at about 1:16:00. Other than that, it's terrible.
Dropped
1/10
And what? You think gay high school boys in 2000 in China didn't have sexual desires, and that they never expressed them? Get real. No, I do not respect this show for "portraying the breeze of our past self," whatever the hell that means. There's no "past" about it. The fact of continued censorship of gay-themed material by the Chinese government is very much a problem of the "present."
"Candy?"
"Yes. I keep it in my pocket. If you'd like to eat some, come see me any time." hahahaha...lol...omg
I don't know how this show can match the wonder of episode1 with each succeeding episode, but I sure hope it does.
Toki Kanade is, apparently, a comic genius, as well as being incredibly sexy/hot/handsome. Not a lot of actors who can convey a character who is equal parts bad-boy thug and middle-school fangirl, crushing on her teacher. The way he uses that handsome rubber face to make all kinds of expressions I wasn't expecting is spectacular. Kizu Takumi's role is much less slap-stick but he seems perfect for it, and the Third Year nerd is as hot and funny in his own way as is Kanade.
I do wonder if the director chickened out a bit by casting such a youthful actor in the role of the teacher, so as to comfort pervs like the commenter below who is worried this show might be about a "pedo." Good god. By casting an actor as the teacher who could just as easily be playing a student, the visual impact of even a slight age gap is eliminated, which is too bad. So what if the characters are five years apart? I hope the show as a whole doesn't ultimately back away from the age difference.
But I digress...this thing is funnier than hell. Also endearing and original-feeling. It's not often we get a butch, BL romantic lead who isn't afraid of the gay crush he is experiencing.
Looking forward to episode 2.
Since you obviously don't care to do so yourself, I'll educate you:
"Pedophilia" is very specifically defined as involving an adult and a PRE-PUBESCENT CHILD. If you don't know what "pre-pubescent" means, look it up. I like to define it as "pre-pubes" to make it easy for people like you to understand.
Does the high school student in this show look like he does or does not have pubes? Answer: He does. Therefore, this is in no way, shape, or form a show involving pedophilia.
Now go watch the Disney channel.
Overall message of this series: Gay relationships are so revolting, sick, perverse, immoral, and contrary to healthy cultural norms that the best we can show here is two best friends who act kind of gay once in a while, but without ever, in any way, credibly displaying gay affection.
Sucks. 1/10
Terrible.
3/10
Dropped. 1/10
5/10
So, actually...terrible.
6/10
Oh well, even so, it would be easy to write in a reason why the counselor survives a prison stay. Maybe he comes out with a limp from a failed assault. Who knows? :D Would be a great sequel.
It works magnificently as a parody of:
Japanese politics
Samurai/death cult/macho/hara kiri/bullshit
Gay pornography
Gay romance
Group-think
and much more...
Love it! Highly recommended.
For what it is: 10/10
2. Adding "literally" to your statements doesn't make them stronger, it just makes you sound stupid. Is there a way to be "non-literally gay?"
3. Lots of gay people suffer from internalized homophobia. YOUR internalized homophobia explains why you find watching gay-censored programming fulfilling.
4. Your disinterest in reading more than a sentence or two likely explains your ignorance.
What am I saying? I'm sure you can't bear to read past the word "So..." above in this comment.
Why any healthy gay person would watch a live-action show in which the plot tells them over and over that gay love/affection/sex is SO incredibly nasty, gross, and immoral, that it can't be shown on the screen even when that love is the heart of the story. Imagine a relationship in the real world, gay, straight or otherwise, in which the partners never hug, kiss, or make love and then tell me you'd see that as healthy and fulfilling. If you say you would, you're lying.
And yet that is what The Untamed dishes up over, and over, and over. It would be interesting to know how many views this thing would have garnered if gay love wasn't censored out of everything in China. If Chinese people could watch depictions of steamy, real gay love, would they watch this trash? There's no way to know but I'm hoping not.
Where do YOU live, btw? Thankfully, I live in the U.S., where anything goes onscreen, and we like it that way.
That's some nihilistic shit, right there.
Extremely well-done nihilistic shit.
I had no stomach for Hollywood films this violent, but the Koreans do something entirely different with the genre and it has made me a fan of these Yakuza/murder/thugs/gangs/crooked cops type movies. Not entirely how to sum it up, but I think it's in the characterizations overall. I find something to like in even the most loathsome characters and that makes me give a shit about what's happening to them, even when they get what they deserve, a few bullets to the brain or a knife to the gut. Oh, and usually, the fight scenes, car chase scenes, and otherwise bloody violence is incredibly choreographed to look absolutely real.
Not currently familiar with the work of Uhm Tae Goo, but I am going to make myself so. He was outstanding here. That raspy voice alone is incredibly sexy and interesting. Funny...he looks like a boy scout in his bio pic above.
Cha Sueng Won and Park Ho San are sensational, as always. Both excel at bringing nuances and specifics of character to their roles. I have yet to feel like either is repeating a character, and I've seen both in a lot of films.
For its genre, this is a 9/10 for me.
Highly recommended.