The films that most rocked my world as I first stumbled across the vast universe of gay-themed Asian cema, ranked om greatt to slightly ls-great. In the first weeks after my disvery I often watched two or three of the movi per day. The are the on that left me sobbg, lghg…" name="scriptn
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FAVORE ASIAN, GAY-THEMED FEATURE FILMS
My addictn wh BL genre has started October 2016 (I did watch lots of Hong Kong, Che, Amerin, European gay themed movi before) and then I started watchg anim, readg mangas and totally beme obssed. :Pp.s. This list clus everythg, all LGBT themed movi and dramas…" name="scriptn * chinese gay movie list *
LGBTQ film Hong Kong, Taiwan, and even Cha go back nearly three s, wh 1993 particular beg a landmark year wh the sympathetic portrayal of gay characters Ang Lee’s The Weddg Banquet and Chén Kǎigē’s 陈凯歌 Farewell My Concube. Wh East Palace, Wt Palace, based on a story by cult wrer Wáng Xiǎobō 王小波, Zhang st his mera on the secret liv and trysts of gay men Beijg. Due to s explic homosexual them, Zhang had to sneak East Palace, Wt Palace out of Cha and fish France.
Wong Kar-wai’s Happy Together, a romance about an on-and-off gay uple strand Argenta, was met wh wi acclaim and gifted Wong the ftival’s Bt Director Award.
At the time of s release, Wong seemed ambivalent about whether Happy Together should be seen as a gay film.
BL/Gay them movi, dramas and short movi om Cha, Hong Kong and Taiwan. For a prehensive list of Asian BL ntag not only the tl but also Japan, South Korea and Thailand; see my huge list for Asian BL/Gay movi and dramas. (At the moment 771 tl and untg.) Also see…" name="scriptn * chinese gay movie list *
Cui’s first work as a screenwrer, the edy-drama Men and Women, was released two years after Cha officially crimalized homosexualy. In 1998, a gay novel lled Beijg Comras (北京故事 Běijīng gùshì) anonymoly appeared on the ter. The stori have largely foced on gay men, but one of the most heartfelt is the g-of-age lbian drama Blue Gate Crossg.
In s basic premise, the movie is an echo of director Yee Chih-yen’s but Lonely Hearts Club (寂寞芳心俱乐部 jìmò fāngxīn jùlèbù) (1996), which is about an acuntant who disvers her new csh at work is gay. Taiwan is supposedly makg a reboot, which ma the fans go ballistic, (pecially sce Taiwan are allowed to show actual gay ntent and therefore n clu at least some of the VERY graphic ntent om the novels) but turned out that the story is a ee adaptatn and do not clu the guys.