Anyone watched "Lai Shi - China's Last Eunuch"?

[happousai (imported)]

This is a movie that came out in the last few years I think. This excerpt from a website got me interested:

A young boy one day tells his father LCY that he wants to be an eunuch. After thinking for a while his father agrees, since their family is very poor. The castration scene will make you cringe-it's disgusing (and LCY, poor coward, runs away with the job half-done, so the boy sits up finishes it...).

[JesusA (imported)]

Paolo wrote an excellent review of the film for the nonfiction board several months ago. Check it out.

[Paolo]

Actually, the best part of this movie is the horrible subtitles and the low budget actors - not to mention the aweful music.

Beleive it or not, Sammo Hung of CBS's series "Martial Law" is in it as the theatre owner who takes the young eunuch in to raise him in anonimity.

The castration scene is, to put it bluntly, horrible and bloody and I almost puked.

The boy who plays the little eunuch is by far the best actor in the show.

[happousai (imported)]

Paolo wrote an excellent review of the film for the nonfiction board several months ago. Check it out.

Can someone give me some keywords or something from that review? I can't find it; I searched for "China's Last Eunuch".

[JesusA (imported)]

I won’t re-post the entire review, but here is the first part of it copied from my hard drive. It gives the exact title as it is on the nonfiction board and the date of posting. The movie is worth viewing, but certainly would never win any awards.

If you still can’t find it, let me know and I’ll send you the entire review as a private message.

___________________

Movie Review : China's Last Eunuch / Last Eunuch in China

(10-17-2001)

by: Paolo

1987, VHS (limited DVD availability).

Starring Max Mok and Sammo Hung (CBS - Martial Law - yep, same actor.) Out of print, usually backordered. Thanks to Jesus for locating a copy for me.

First off, the movie is subtitled. If you don't read fast, or don't speak Chinese, you're in trouble! It is subtitled in another Chinese dialect, and English as well. Obviously, the man in charge of writing the subtitles was either drunk or lazy. The subtitles are amusing sometimes; just what part of a chicken is a "chicken bottom?" It looks like a thigh-leg quarter to me.

The film begins with some scenes of Chinese children in a poor region playing outside. They hear some commotion from the village, and find that a well-known Eunuch is passing through in his "sedan" and entourage. This starts the children, mostly boys, to dreaming about a career as such filled with wealth and granduer and not having to scrape for food. Their game soons turns to imitating the sight they have just seen, which is cute.

[happousai (imported)]

Jesus wrote:

>

If you still can’t find it, let me know and I’ll send you the

> entire review as a private message.

Can do you that please? I don't think it's on the board anymore; the non-fiction board doesn't even *have* posts before November 2001, and a search for Sammo Hung found nothing.