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).
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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.
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Tears 眼淚
Tears, directed by Cheng Wen-tang, features two betel nut girls played by Doris Yeh and Enno Cheng who are better known for their work in the world of music. Doris is the bass player in Taiwanese metal band ChthoniC and Enno is a singer-songwriter.
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Dainty Betel Nut
Forthcoming short film directed by Tobie Openshaw based on a story by Joshua Samuel Brown. More details when they are available.
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The Glass Box 玻璃箱
The Glass Box is a short fictional film directed by Canadian Matt Finlin. It is based on the lives of two young women in Taiwan. Claudia is a twenty-three year old North American who has reluctantly come to Asia with her boyfriend to teach English at a cram school. Yin-May, also twenty-three, was born and raised in Taiwan by her father in a fishing community on the island of Chijin. The story takes place in the booming metropolis of Kaohsiung, Taiwan's second largest city.
The movie is centred around a conversation between Claudia and Yin-may in the betel nut stand where Yin-May works. The two women share their hopes and frustrations together. Although they come from different sides of the world, they find they have many things in common.
