We do love an obscure but explicit Asian movie. The one we were watching over the weekend was White River. Released in 2023, the film is about, to quote the official synopsis, "a woman whose routine of cooking, cleaning and observing strict quarantine rules is disrupted when she becomes entangled in an erotic web with her husband and an enigmatic young waiter." The film is made in China in Mandarin but is apparently a South Korean production. It is directed by Ma Xue, a female filmmaker. Tian Yuan, a musician and actress, plays the titular character, in a brave role in which she bares a ...

While we have eagerly watched and covered the content Netflix has made in Japan, not least the TV series The Naked Director, which lived up to its title, and the recent lesbian road movie Ride or Die, which featured amazing sex scenes with Kiko Mizuhara, we also want to pay attention to the other Asian content being produced. Our eye was caught by the Chinese-Taiwanese mystery movie The Soul (Ji hun), which stars Anke Sun and was released globally in mid-April. Anke Sun does full-frontal nudity in it. Although the scene is sadly not a sex scene, she walks fully around nude in a room and ...