# Melancholic Asian movie, the main character is possibly a masseuse

**URL:** <https://filmfind.me/t/melancholic-asian-movie-the-main-character-is-possibly-a-masseuse/9423>\
**Category:** Movies\
**Created:** [July 7, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/melancholic-asian-movie-the-main-character-is-possibly-a-masseuse/9423 "2025-07-07T04:24:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 4:24am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/melancholic-asian-movie-the-main-character-is-possibly-a-masseuse/9423/1 "2025-07-07T04:24:47Z")

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"I think I’ve seen this movie maybe 20 years ago.

I remember it being an asian movie, but I’m not sure from which country it was specifically. It was very melancholic, about the struggle of the main protagonist, very slow paced.

I distinctly remember two scenes:

In the first one, the main character (a woman), who massages one of her regular clients, discovers that the client has, among more traditional tattoos, a new tattoo of Micky Mouse (or something similar). I think the implication were that it was to cheer her up or something like that.

The second scene is towards the end, where the woman sits in a bar and a man approaches her and asks whether he can paint her. He does and produces a very moody, melancholic painting of the woman."

It’s not:

Love Talk (Leo-beu-to-keu, 2005)

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[https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthemoviecalled/comments/1lrfyuo](https://www.reddit.com/r/whatsthemoviecalled/comments/1lrfyuo)

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**Author:** ![wositelec](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@wositelec](https://filmfind.me/u/wositelec)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:46am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/melancholic-asian-movie-the-main-character-is-possibly-a-masseuse/9423/2 "2025-07-07T10:46:46Z")

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Wild guess (I didn’t watch), but maybe?

> **[Soap Girl (2002) ⭐ 4.6 | Drama, Romance](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0304729/)**
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> 1h 30m | Not Rated

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**Author:** ![wositelec](https://filmfind.me/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/958977/32.png) [@wositelec](https://filmfind.me/u/wositelec)\
**Post date:** [July 7, 2025, 10:48am UTC](https://filmfind.me/t/melancholic-asian-movie-the-main-character-is-possibly-a-masseuse/9423/3 "2025-07-07T10:48:06Z")

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Other possibility:

> **[Massage Girls in B'Kok (1979) ⭐ 4.5 | Adult, Crime, Drama](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134572/?ref_=tttg_ov_bk)**
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> 1h 22m | X