When Lee Kang-sheng was casting for his latest film, Help Me Eros, he needed to find women to appear with him in a rooftop orgy scene, in which designer brand logos would be projected onto their nude, copulating bodies.
After a bit of searching, he found the F4 Girls, a group of Taiwanese variety show-grade actresses put together mainly because they all had F-cup busts.
'Very early on, we told them there would be a lot of nudity, and they were all willing,' says Lee (right), who both directed and starred in the film.
Lee, now 40, is best known as the lead actor for virtually the entire two-decade filmography of Taiwan's acclaimed art-house director Tsai Ming-liang. As a result, Lee and Tsai are seen very much as kindred spirits.
Help Me Eros is Lee's second effort as a director, and is a collaboration with Tsai, who served as artistic director.
The film tells the story of a man caught in a tailspin of cheap sex, marijuana and bad investments. Its slow-paced intertwining of the fantastical and the mundane are all very much according to Tsai's hallmark aesthetic.