Here are some female cakings and pieings from Chinese television shows and movies from the past decade or so

1. Actress Huang Riying gets a (presumably anachronistic) caking in a period drama. Great coverage and understated reaction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvmTHpOGftA

2. Flight attend self-cakes when trying to take the flack during a telling off from the captain https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDc5NjI2MTIwMA==.html?spm=a2h0c.8166622.PhoneSokuUgc_7.dtitle

3. Guy cakes his girlfriend at 00:20 https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDIwNzAwMDI0MA==.html?spm=a2h0c.8166622.PhoneSokuUgc_3.dtitle

4. Guy cakes his girlfriend in an ill-judged birthday prank https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzU5NTAzNjA1Ng==.html?spm=a2h0c.8166622.PhoneSokuUgc_10.dtitle

5. Woman accidentally cakes her boss https://v.qq.com/x/page/c06871pl5y9.html?spm=a2h0c.8166622.PhoneSokuUgc_10.dtitle

This might be my favourite, considering the bitchiness of the recipient, and the sense of catharsis https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDExNzg5MjYwOA==.html?spm=a2hcb.playlsit.page.164 . It is from the ending of the Hong Kong film 'The Best Plan Is No Plan'

Really good finds, everything is new to me.
Thanks!

Terrific finds! I especially loved the first one, the period caking one - loved how creamy it was and the lasting nature of the facial coverage.

Thank you for posting these!

JY

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Here are two face-plants that I posted in our group. These Chinese tube sites are great for finding these types of scenes!


https://v.qq.com/x/page/h3139ewxueu.html?start=0

https://v.qq.com/x/page/s3139jobqqf.html

Dude. This is a once a year kinda super find. So awesome. This whole setup is on par with the best we have, imo. To me, it highlights how good a scene can be with quality acting and camera work. It's only 1cake, it's only 1minute, but it's flawless. This is the kind of stuff I was hoping to make when I started wamerica.

Thanks. I had no idea (until recently) that messy indignities were so good for web traffic, so I will be shoehorning them in more of my output, when we're allowed to out filming things again.

This stuff is incredible. Mainstream finds like these are well worth digging for, and the women portrayed in the videos are gorgeous.

Great job and thank you for sharing these with us TheKev! I love it when new TV scenes are discovered. And thank you for your translations, these scenes would be hard for most of us to find let alone understand.

Nobody can lose this one!!!

Is this a new thing for China? I doubt they would have had that sort of slapstick in times when people were starving...

Very much so. But I would be amazed if anything like gunging or sliming took off in China any time soon. During the Cultural Revolution, nationwide terror that is still well within living memory, a common punishment was to pour black ink over political prisoners' heads, so people wouldn't see it as a laughing matter.

I think these cakings owe quite a bit to Japanese influence, via Taiwan.

I'm not sure there's as much a significance between slapstick and food politics as some may make out. I mean by that standard the heights of American and British slapstick pre and post war were pretty much respectively at times of great economic depression and (in the UK case certainly) food scarcity (and I'm being generous here since my region is these days full of food banks that people have to go to since they can't afford to even purchase food).

I mean obvs Chinese media ain't gonna do mass food fights during the 50's after the war and the sweeping industrial efforts but that was some time ago and things are quite different these days. What might have been more of a stumbling block was the Great Proletariat Cultural Revolution which wouldn't of ever looked at western style slapstick comedy as generously as the Avant Garde Soviets did (a bad Western hangover from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion certainly didn't help things).

Regarding the above post, I now have a surreal image of the New Left peasants and students movement in modern China talking up TV gunging as a throwback to what they did to the bosses back in the day. The East Is Red meets Noels House Party essentially.