Fake.
Release year: 1996
Country: Japan

Gay cop hijinks abound in this title based on the popular Japanese comic book!  Dee Laytner and Randy “Ryo” McLane are detectives in New York City’s 27th Precinct.  They go on vacation together to England, where gay Dee plans on seducing Ryo.  When corpses start turning up outside their hotel, though, seduction must be placed on the back burner until the mystery is solved!

 

 
Farewell, My Concubine
Release year: 1993
Country: Hong Kong

The Peking Opera (as experienced by two of its stars) is a metaphor for China's social and artistic decline. The photography is stunning and the opera scenes and Gong Li are beautiful to watch; Leslie Cheung is in fine form as the perennial victim, and the odd friendship between Leslie and the court eunuch is sensitive and even moving.

 

 
Father Of The Bride
Release year: 1991
Country:  USA

Sentimental family comedy about father giving away daughter received lackluster critical response, but was a huge commercial hit. Will please those looking for light, Hollywood-style situational humor.

 

 
Father Of The Bride II
Release year: 1995
Country:  USA

Dad is reluctant to marry off his daughter. Slapstick sequel was not heralded with much fanfare. May prove amusing to romance or comedy lovers looking for some mindless fun.

 

 

First Love and Other Pains
Release year: 1995
Country:  USA

In Hong Kong a nineteen year-old gay college student, Mark, is smitten with his English instructor, an older, frustrated British playwright, Hugh. Mark is a standout student in Hugh's class and trails him to a theater where they are producing Hugh's gay play. Mark strikes up a friendship with the depressed, alcoholic - but well-preserved middle-aged man and they fuck in the bathtub one drunken night. Hugh tries to push Mark away, but the youth is persistent in his successful quest. The issue of an inter-generational and cross-cultural romance is never even an issue, which certainly makes watching the film nice and easy! Although the film has a simple - and often told - story line, the film succeeds because of the excellent actors and strong character development. (Partly in Cantonese with English subtitles)

 

 
Fleeing By Night
Release year: 2002
Country:  China

Filmed in Beijing and New York, FLEEING BY NIGHT tells the story of Shaodung, an American-educated cellist who returns to China for his arranged marriage to Ing'er the daughter of a wealthy opera house owner. Once back home, however, Shaodung finds himself drawn to singer Lin Chun, whose impassioned rendition of the opera "Lin Chun Flees By Night" strikes a deep chord in both him and his fiancée. The three become friends, with Ing'er unaware of the deeper attraction between the men. Unfortunately Chun is trapped in servitude to the master of the company, who pimps him out to a rich playboy, and Shaodung is deeply closeted, which hinders him from acting on his desires. Set primarily in the late 1930s (but ultimately spanning decades), the film effectively uses China's pre-revolution cultural contrasts to parallel its characters' own identity crises. Homoerotic content is fairly minimal in the film, which focuses more on rich period detail and how the joys and sorrows of love can shape the course of personal histories.

Fall 1990
Release year: 1990
Country:  USA

Fall 1990 is a college boy-meets-boy romance; and  finally, the structural glue holding this operatic together is a witty mock autobiography of an aspiring independent filmmaker with a love of rice boys and film.  In a delightfully freewheeling and campy manner, FLOW depicts the experiences of a gay Asian filmmaker coming to terms with his work, his mother and sexuality.

 

Flow
Release year: 1995
Country:  USA

Quentin Lee combines five short films into his first feature that he describes as "an allegory of the fictive history of gay Asian films." It opens with an introduction to a 22-year-old queer Asian filmmaker who is looking for love while trying to finish his latest work, a character not unlike Lee himself. What follows is a mix of autobiography and fiction, including a parody of a safer sex public announcement, a knife-wielding drag queen, a film noir about a young man that kills his mother on Christmas Day, a surrealistic vampire tale and a story of romance on the college campus. Lee successfully fuses together fact with fantasy, a diversity of genre, and queer and Asian identities in this celebratory work.

 

 

Fujimi Orchestra
Release year:
Country: Japan

Fujimi Symphony Orchestra is composed of amateur musicians led by the shy, bespectacled Yuki Morimura. They didn't have much to offer in terms of musical ability, but the arrival of the brilliant conductor Kei Tounoin brings a newfound sparkle in everybody's eyes. Kei is night to Yuki's day. While Yuki leads with warmth and gentleness, Kei rules with a dictator's hand. Despite this stark difference, Fujimi Orchestra blossoms more under Kei's care. When all the young women, including Yuki's love interest Kawashima, starts expressing romantic interests in Kei, Yuki turns bitter. His performance plummets, forcing an inevitable confrontation with the enigmatic Kei. Yuki quits. Kei wouldn't allow it…for Yuki is the "violin" that Kei had been longing for since the very beginning. This title has no science fiction, no magic, no comedy, just good solid drama about everyday people in their everyday lives. It also features what appears to be the single longest sex scene of all hardcore yaoi anime.

 

Full Contact
Release year: 1992
Country: Hong Kong

Chow Yun Fat as the villain! Robberies, double crosses, male-bonding. More emphasis on sex than in most mainstream HK films.

Chow Yun-Fat pulls off a caper with dainty but dangerous Simon Yam, but a double-cross is in the works. In the messy conflagration that follows, Yam's boys machine-gun an innocent family to get at Chow, leaving a teenage girl with disfiguring scars. Our hero escapes, however, and vows revenge to get money for the victim.

 
FUNERAL PARADE OF ROSES
(BARA NO SORETSU)
Release year: 1969
Country:  Japan

Described by film historian Amos Vogel as a study in 'surrealist displacement' Funeral Parade of Roses offers a giddy glimpse of gay and transvestite subculture in Japan at the end of the 1960s. A film years ahead of its time, in which Matsumoto (who later made Pandemonium) brought together the underground, avant-garde tradition in which he had participated, and a politicised, Brechtian approach to social reality.  Playfully colliding documentary and fiction within and across scenes, and mixing the sexual revolution with the primal myth of Oedipus, film historian Noel Burch sees Mastumoto bringing 'maximum clarification to the productive confrontation between Japanese culture and Western
materialist theories of representation. 

 

Fussy Ghost
Release year: 1993
Country:  Hong Kong

An upwardly mobile gay man is so perturbed by his murder that his spirit sticks around to incriminate his killer.