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• 10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA
• FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

10 GREAT GAY FILMS OM EAST AND SOUTH-EAST ASIA

Crystal Boys by Pai Hsien-YungThis is nsired the first gay novel to be wrten Che. The book giv an hont and thentic look to the world of 1970s Taiwan and what gay men had to do to survive.

Gentlemen Prefer Asians: Tal of Gay Indonians and Green Card Marriag by Yka Lutfi TuanakottaIn the wty personal says, an Indonian thor lv to his adjtment to Ameri.

FOUR YEARS, TWO NTENTS: A GAY CHE UPLE'S JOURNEY FOR A SURROGATE SON

He explor the flirtat liftyle of a gay man livg up San Francis while alg wh his past life Indonia. But for now, here are the 11 bt BL dramas om 2021 that serve your WrerStep si the life of a fictn wrer as Gene (“Up” Poompat Iam-samang) overse his BL novel beg adapted to a drama and falls for the drama’s lead actor, Nubsib (“Kao” Noppakao Dechaphatthanakun), while his edor prsur him for the next btseller that’s more gay, more erotic, and more profable. Kokoy Santos and Elijah Canlas m to their craft like their rent is due, brgg a vulnerabily and tth to the uple’s gay experience.

(Philipp)Light On MeBasilly has all the bells and whistl of a K-drama, but make gay. Enter Kang Yooseok as Shwoo and Choe Chanyi as Daon, his betifully flawed love terts, whose storyl engage wh their gayns a tangible way, not simply relegatg to the peripheral.

(Viki, Japan)To My StarOnce aga provg there’s more to gay fantasy than universy romanc, To My Star featur Son Woo-hyun as popular actor Kang Seo-joon, who is exiled om stardom amidst a media ntroversy. Take a look at the bt gay films om Cha, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, the Philipp and Thailand. Gay rights, and reprentatn of gay men on screen, vary hugely om untry to untry, offerg a rich diversy of fascatg movi.

If east and south-east Asian films about gay men rarely make to DVD, films about lbians are rarer still. We hope that, wh classic lbian tl beg creasgly succsful, albe at a shamefully slow rate, a future list on gay female east Asian films will appear the future.

The bananas plot is pure mp: transvte performer Eddie (played by Peter, later the fool  Akira Kurosawa’s Ran (1985)) strik up a fierce rivalry wh another drag queen Shju Ni-chōme, Tokyo’s gay ghetto. Eddie tri to fet harrowg memori of killg his mother – and anyone who knows their Greek tragedy will send-gus the inty of the manager of a gay bar wh whom he then shacks up.

A direct fluence on Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange (1971), Funeral Para of Ros gleefully subverts all notn of rpectabily, givg the viewer an unashamed snapshot of 1960s Japane gay subculture on the way, as queers Tokyo speak their mds to the mera. Farewell My Concube (1993)The unrequed gay love story at the heart of Chen Kaige’s Palme d’Or-wng masterpiece is often overlooked, wh crics ncentratg their admiratn on the credibly amb spe of the film, takg over half a century of Che history. East Palace, Wt Palace (1996)Power play is a major theme of this tense drama, which a gay man is apprehend while cisg a park and spends the night a police statn unr the stern eye of the arrtg officer.