River (1997)
AKA: He Liu
Directed by: Tsai Ming-liang
Starring: Lee Kang-sheng (Hsiao-Kang), Miao Tien (Father), Lu Hsiao-ling (Mother), Chen Shiang-chyi (former girlfriend)
Country: Taiwan; Effed Up Hong Kong-Chinese-Taiwanese Films
Language: Taiwanese Mandarin (Eng Subs)
Runtime: 01:55:51
Plot – Spoilers:
A Taiwanese man, Hsiao-Kang, doesn’t do anything much and while doing this bumps into a former girlfriend who interestingly addresses him by the name of the actor playing him – Lee Kang-sheng. Since Kang’s doing nothing much, she invites him to a film shoot that she’s involved with, where he lands the role of a drowned corpse in a dirty river. He gains some sex in return for the stench but also picks up a kind of neck affliction that gets progressively worse.
At home, things are mostly silent barring the constant drip from a leaky roof. Dad is gay and Mom seems to know this and spends her free time with a porno chap.
Massive Spoilers:
The River is a work of pure class that doesn’t shy from darkly comedic scenes like when father and son ride a bike with the father propping up his son’s flailing neck.
And there’s of course the most poignant moment – when everyone rejects you, only your father can inadvertently comfort you by jerking you off.
Is the leaky roof at home related? Dad was willing to live with it because he was incapable of solving it. Mom on the other hand made the effort and fixed it. But then her vibrator didn’t work, whereas Dad was able to bond sexually with the son.
lmmfao—- the description of this movie is so hysterical that I simply HAVE to watch it
The most godawful bore fest on this site! The longest 2 hours in my life for sure. Watch this if you like watching paint dry
Hey, EUM guys. Not requesting anything, just recommending. Recently watched a Taiwanese movie called ” The Sadness ” and had to comment on it. Its the most goriest fucked up film I have seen in years and would make a great addition to this site. I think a lot of ppl on here would enjoy it, but like I said, only a suggestion. Cheers. Zed.
It is available elsewhere so have added to my watch-list. It would be nice if the admin gave a time line on when requests are coming back. How long is the backlog?
Backlog would be massive. At one stage, the request page was offline due to the site being saturated with requests. And yes, ” The Sadness ” is available to view on several free movie sites, you just have to know which ones.
Yeah I watched it on Shudder a while back, totally bonkers film & great fun.
A lot of them were lost to server injuries few months back. Haven’t actually been looking at what we recovered, for a while now. Looking to put more time into this site over the next month, and maybe start posting some of those requests.
Might as well let this out, now that time has passed. One of the guys here who used to handle a lot of the rips died several months back. So things have been slow here. Don’t care anymore, if anyone wants to mock this.
Figured something like that, sry:/ Thanks for keeping the site up and running either way!
@Zed Man: The Sadness was pretty funny. Reminded me distinctly of the Crossed comics. Thanks for the recommendation;)
THX. Sorry for your loss.
Reminds me of when it was all P2P and the main server of one site was in a mums bacement and the owner was off hiking in India when it went down. It took two weeks to locate him and get a password to reset.
I like the trickle of films I have never come across so am just getting greedy.
Sorry Admin. I know that feeling and it ain’t nothing nice
My best go out to all of y’all.
Depressing. Bleak and miserable. In Hong Kong, we say “Bié dānxīn méiguānxì”!
Hey admin,
isolation
bleak
disconnected
unsettling
So, yeah, thanks for
the spaced out movie !
I just watched a movie with a guy taking a 20 second piss. nice
I tried I really did, but every scene is way too long. Do we really need 15 minutes of them messing with a dummy in the water or 2 minutes of the director lady lighting her cigarette? Oh man and that riveting opening of a dry ass conversation between two old friends infront of a loud escalator. That that the longest 10 minutes of my life.