I happen to have a full dvdrip of this movie, and am sharing it now. Unfortunately it doesn't come with an English subtitle; the hard Chinese subtitle is unremovable.
General
Unique ID : 233127846902229815574848560433767345851 (0xAF62CA456EAAEA048D7BE3C8FFBF6EBB)
Complete name : 乞爱者 愛を乞うひと Begging for Love(1998).mkv
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 1.59 GiB
Duration : 2h 15mn
Overall bit rate : 1 679 Kbps
Encoded date : UTC 2013-03-24 15:32:18
Writing application : mkvmerge v5.7.0 ('The Whirlwind') built on Jul 8 2012 20:08:51
Writing library : libebml v1.2.3 + libmatroska v1.3.0
Video #1
ID : 1
Format : MPEG-4 Visual
Format profile : Simple@L3
Format settings, BVOP : No
Format settings, QPel : No
Format settings, GMC : No warppoints
Format settings, Matrix : Default (H.263)
Codec ID : FMP4
Duration : 2h 15mn
Bit rate : 1 518 Kbps
Width : 720 pixels
Height : 480 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 3:2
Frame rate : 29.970 fps
Standard : NTSC
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Compression mode : Lossy
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.147
Stream size : 1.44 GiB (90%)
Writing library : ZJMedia MPEG Encoder
Default : Yes
Forced : No
Audio #2
ID : 2
Format : MPEG Audio
Format version : Version 1
Format profile : Layer 3
Mode : Joint stereo
Mode extension : MS Stereo
Muxing mode : Header stripping
Codec ID : A_MPEG/L3
Codec ID/Hint : MP3
Duration : 2h 15mn
Bit rate mode : Constant
Bit rate : 128 Kbps
Channel(s) : 2 channels
Sampling rate : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode : Lossy
Stream size : 124 MiB (8%)
Writing library : LAME3.98.4
Default : Yes
Forced : No
I translated the chinese subtitles, too. The result was pretty good. Of course they are auto-translated, but Subtitle Edit with the Microsoft Translator really did a good job on it. If someone has some spare time: any corrections are welcome