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{{Infobox filmperson
| name = BeijingRobert Van WatermelonDamme
| image = File:testRobert Van Damme (cropped).pngjpg
| altcaption = Van Damme =in 2009
| captionbirth_name = Robert = Kovařík
| director birth_date = [[Nobuhiko{{birth Obayashi]]date|1969|8|11|mf=y|}}
| producer birth_place = [[Czechoslovakia]]
| studio death_date =
| screenplay = {{ill|Yoshihiro Ishimatsu|ja|石松愛弘}}
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| released = {{Film date|1989|11|18}}
| runtime = 135 minutes
| country = Japan
| language = Japanese, Chinese
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'''Robert Kovařík''', known professionally as '''Robert Van Damme''', is a Czech former [[ice hockey]] player, gay [[pornographic film actor]], and pornographic film producer.
{{nihongo|'''''Beijing Watermelon'''''|北京的西瓜}} is a 1989 Japanese film directed by [[Nobuhiko Obayashi]].
 
In 2014, Kovařík was sentenced by a Czech court to nine years in prison on charges arising from a series of [[Robbery|armed robberies]] he committed in the country in 1999 and 2000. He was released from prison in 2023.
==Synopsis==
In the exurbs of [[Tokyo]] in the late 1980s, a [[greengrocer]] becomes acquainted with a group of local Chinese exchange students.
 
==CastBiography==
Kovařík was born in [[Czechoslovakia]]. In the 1990s, he was an [[ice hockey]] player for [[LHK Jestřábi Prostějov]], and later played for {{ill|Hokej Vyškov|cz|Hokej Vyškov}}.
* {{ill|Bengal (actor){{!}}Bengal|ja|ベンガル (俳優)}} as Shunzo Horikoshi
* {{ill|Masako Motai|ja|もたいまさこ}} as Michi Horikoshi
 
==Production and release==
''Beijing Watermelon'' was filmed from May to June 1989. The [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre|Tiananmen Square protests and massacre]] occurred mid-production, forcing the cancellation of plans to shoot the Beijing-set portions of the film on-location.
 
As Robert Van Damme, Kovařík became a popular [[gay-for-pay]] pornographic film actor and performed primarily as a "[[Gay sex roles|power top]]".
==Reception==
 
==External links==
*{{IMDb title|tt0099116}}
*''[https://archive.org/details/beijing.-watermelon.-1989.x-264 Beijing Watermelon]'' at the [[Internet Archive]]
 
==RESOURCES==
* https://avn.com/business/articles/gay/robert-van-damme-detained-by-ice-398669.html
* https://metrograph.com/beijingwatermelon/
* https://web.archive.org/web/20140320202427/http://www.vecernikpv.cz/co-se-stalo/krimi-zpravy/803-aktualizovano-10-nejhledanejsich-zlocincu
* https://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/beijing-watermelon
* https://prostejovsky.denik.cz/zlociny-a-soudy/lupice-z-prostejova-pustili-v-usa-na-svobodu-podni.html
* https://crookedmarquee.com/beijing-watermelon-the-return-of-a-drama-caught-between-china-and-japan-reality-and-fiction/
* https://www.latimesedgemedianetwork.com/archivesstory/la-xpm-1990-10-05-ca-1530-story.html171064
* https://www.screenslate.com/articles/beijing-watermelon