Queer
Asian Cinema
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Catfish In Black Bean Sauce
Release year: 2000
Country: USA

Harold and Dolores Williams are a middle-aged, African-American couple who, twenty-some years ago, adopted two orphaned Vietnamese kids. Despite their tumultuous early years, Mai and Dwayne are now generally well-adjusted young adults, with Mai being married to Vinh and Dwayne hoping to propose to his nurse girlfriend, Nina.
The happily family scene is disrupted, however, when Mai announces that she's located their biological mother, Thanh, and is bringing her over to the States. While Mai is happy to have her real mother back in her life, Dolores is hurt by the woman's presence as is Dwayne who must put up with this stranger living with him and his roommate, Michael, who's dating Samantha, a male transvestite. With Thanh's presence putting a strain on the many relationships within the Williams clan, Dwayne must figure out his true cultural identity, whether he can accept his biological mother into his life, and how all of that affects his engagement to Nina.


Cheap Killers
Release year:
Country: Hong Kong

This is one of the most outrageous Hong Kong movies of recent years - in fact it is Wong Jing at his best! Mega violent, mega emotional story of two friends and their troubles with gangs, women and each other. Sonny Chan, Alex Fong, Kathy Chow and Stephen Fung. Oh, and add to the mix that Alex Fong's character is desperately in love with Sonny Chan's!

Cold War
Release year:
Country: Hong Kong

Suave assassin Ka Chu is hired to eliminate Liang Yung but accidentally kills the man's gay twin brother instead. Accompanied by his partner, Maria, next journeys to Seoul to take out Taiwanese weapons smuggler/drug dealer Chue Chung. With the help of his younger brother, Yung, Chue and his Tien Yee gang have become the most powerful gangsters in South East Asia. Chue possesses such influence in fact, that the South Korean authorities have been unable to make any charges against him stick.

Crazy
Release year: 1999
Country: Hong Kong

 

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Queer Asian Cinema
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