Betelnut Beauty 愛你愛我

The movie Betelnut Beauty (Chinese title: 愛你愛我 Ai Ni Ai Wo) was released in the year 2001 and directed by Lin Cheng-sheng (林正盛) . It stars Angelica Lee and Chang Chen (張震).

• Betelnut beauty - synopsis and review
• Lin Cheng-sheng: From Baking to Filmmaking (interview)
• IMDB Betelnut beauty
• 2002 Chinese Film Showcase : Betelnut Beauty
• 愛你愛我 (Chinese information)

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Help Me Eros 幫幫我愛神

Another Taiwanese movie featuring betel nut girls was released in Taiwan in January 2008. Help Me Eros was directed by and also stars Lee Kang-sheng (李康生). Much of the action takes place around a betel nut stand in Kaohsiung City.

In this film you can see women preparing the betel nut and selling it to the customers as they drive past. There is also a scene harvesting the betel nuts (more precisely areca nuts) on a betel nut farm. The film has attracted a lot of attention for its sex scenes and marijuana use. 

• Bangbang wo aishen - Internet Movie Database
• Help Me Eros - official movie blog
• Sex, food and pot - Taipei Times review
• Sex, marijuana and loneliness - review by David on Formosa
• Help Me Eros - review by Alton
• 'Eros' in the streets of Taiwan - Taipei Times article
• Pillow talk with Lee Kang-sheng - Taipei Times interview