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Lan Yu
Release year: 2003
Country: China
Chen Handong meets
Lan Yu and pay to start a life-changing relationship; Handong
meets Lan Yu more frequently until one night Lan Yu finds his
lover seducing a college athlete. They meet again on the night
of 4 June 1989. Handong finds Lan Yu save from being caught
by the army's murderous sweep through at Tiananmen Square and
they restart their live together. For shying away from his feelings
for the boy, Handong married with Jingping, But they divorced
before long, He runs into Lan Yu again by chance, But fate can
play cruel tricks...
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Lavender
Release year: 2000
Country: Hong Kong
OK,
so this is not a perfect movie. But who would not love to
have Kaneshiro Takeshi come crashing through their roof, wings
or no wings? Eason Chan is Chow Chow, the gay boy next door
who is eager to show the heavenly creature Kaneshiro that
there are lots of people who would be willing to love him,
and would not mind paying either! This plot twist could have
been silly, but both Chan and Takeshi bring and innocence
and compaction to the subject. I especially like the scene
where Angel tells a depressed and guilt ridden Chow Chow not
to worry about being attracted to him, because Gay people
will be in heaven too! Kelly Chan gives a fine performance
as a woman who has given up on love ever since her boyfriend
died. There was 15 minutes of bull, and I mean this literally
as well as figuratively, that the film could have done without,
but over all this is a quite charming and hopelessly romantic
film.
Reviewer:
Long Yang Club - Denver
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The Legend Of
The Blue Wolves
Release year:
Country: Japan
2199 A.D. - The
human race's problems in overpopulation and resource distribution
has heightened to a degree that forced them to adapt to environments
outside their own. They formed a network of colonies inside
the vast solar system, which in turn, changed not only their
habits but their flesh as well. For 100 years after this,
the human race thrived and lived in glory. They did not anticipate
that a time would come when all of it would end. The day that
the humans marched into Pluto was the day that they met up
with a group known as the Apocalypse. Dark and mysterious,
the Apocalypse was only known for the frightening fact that
they would assimilate humans into their own mechanical bodies,
disposing of the victim's flesh and keeping only his brain
as its source of knowledge and energy. A battle begins at
Ganymede, one of Jupiter's moons. 2nd lieutenant Jonathan
Tyberius prepares himself to stand in the front line as he
remembers a promise that he must deliver to one Leonard Schteinberg.
He sits back, committing to memory the beauty of Leonard's
face and the brief waking moment before tragedy struck and
pulled them apart. Thus begins Jonathan's story
Legend of the Blue Wolves deserves applause for being one
of the rare yaoi hentai that boasts of detailed private parts.
Of course, there's the standard Japanese censorship, but you
can still see the genitals underneath that annoying blurry
cloud.
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The Let It Be
Release year: 2000
Country: Hong Kong
Dog food salesman
Lau Ching constantly cheats on his meek wife, Shun, and is
especially happy when his doctor buddy sets him up with gorgeous
Lui Chung-nam. Infatuated with his latest conquest, Ching
quickly decides to divorce his wife but, unable to do so,
instead brings Chung-nam home as his concubine. He then goes
away for a few days to indulge in even more adultery, leaving
the two women alone. Ching returns to find that Chung-nam
has seduced Shun and that the two have become lovers. Now
it's Ching who is about to get dumped and he is desperate
to put things back the way they were. Given HK cinema's track
record when it comes to presenting gay themes and characters,
it is unwise to expect anything particularly innovative but
LET IT BE fails to even offer anything meaningful or amusing
about relationships period, gay or straight.
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The Level
C
Release year: 2002
Country: Japan
This
is an interesting concept and works. Mizuki is a popular male
fashion model with a promising future. When the mysterious
Haruno sees him, she wants to make him the centerpiece for
her company's latest promotion. To lure Mizuki in, she calls
on the talents of her twin brother, Kazo. He is quick to seduce
the young supermodel, but things soon escalate beyond business
as usual. As Kazo's feelings run away with him, it looks like
true love for him and Mizuki. The "yaoi" affair
stuff between the two is good, honest, and tastefully done.
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The Like Grains Of
Sand
Release year:
Country: Japan
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Looking For Angel
Release year:
Country: Japan
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The
Love Paradox
Release year: 2000
Country: Hong Kong
Dancer
Yip Sau-wan is having no luck at auditions but it looks like
she has finally managed to convince boyfriend Denver to walk
down the aisle with her. However, when he finds out that she
has been reading his e-mail from old girlfriend Michelle Fong
and suspects them of having "monkey affairs," Denver
declares that the wedding is off and disappears. Hopelessly
depressed and angry, Sau-wan fires off an e-mail to Michelle
and challenges her to "a duel." The Michelle who
shows up is actually Michel, Denver's old lover from Montreal,
an aspect of his past that he never revealed to Sau-wan. Sau-wan
and Michel move in together (following a drunken evening which
ended up with them in bed together) and he coaches her on
her dancing in preparation for another tryout.
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hope you have found the Long Yang - Denver's
Queer
Asian Cinema
informative.
If you know of a film with a gay Asian character that is still
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about it so we can add it to our list!
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