Eagle Shooting Heroes
(Dong Chen Xi Jiu)
Release year: 1993
Country:  Hong Kong

'It took my seven digestive pills to dissolve your hairy crab.' If you can figure that one out, you'll probably be able to make sense of this all-star kung-fu farce.  In slapstick style, characters cross-dress, hallucinate, perform song-and-dance numbers, and fight each other (in fast and slow motion).  They also match wits with a full-sized ape, vulture, and rubber lizard guarding man-sized goblets in a cave.  Jackie Cheung (as the Beggar Prince) and Leung Ka Fai (in a split gay/straight role) serve up the laffs, while top-billed Brigitte Lin acts up a storm with a nothing more than a blink.

 

East Palace, West Palace 
Release year: 1998
Country: China

In a time when homosexuals are persecuted and arrested by police in China, a young gay writer finds himself being attracted to the policeman interrogating him. During the night-long interrogation, his life story reveals the repression of the general Chinese population. Beijing policeman fights his own attraction to gay prisoner in nightlong interrogation. Powerful drama's strong story, rich characterizations will engross fans of thought-provoking fare, those interested in gay, human rights.