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M. Butterfly
Release year: 1993
Country: USA
Sumptuously filmed love ruse about French diplomat, Chinese
diva in drag. Critics were lukewarm. Sumptuously filmed love
ruse about French diplomat, Chinese diva in drag. Critics were
lukewarm. Tests the boundaries of plausibility, but fans of
offbeat period pieces, gender-bending tales may enjoy.
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Macho Dancer
Release year: 1987
Country: Philippines
Classic story of country boy's
loss of innocence in an evil metropolis. Homosexual viewpoint
and Philippine setting, combined with surprisingly slick style,
make this a hit with gay viewers.
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Mango Soufflé
Release year: 2002
Country: India
A groundbreaking
film from India, set in Bangalore, at the home of Kamlesh,
a successful fashion designer. He has invited a group of friends
for brunch and it seems as if the stage is set for an Indian
version of The Boys in the Band when Kamlesh's bitchy ex-lover
Sharad, his female friend Deepali, closeted actor Bunny and
lover Ranjith, a sarcastic upper class Anglo-Indian, all gather.
Kamlesh is moody because he has just split up with his most
recent ex and wants everyone to swear they will never make
any public acknowledgement of this relationship. Based on
the director's own play 'A Muggy Night in Mumbai', tensions
and moral choices collide when two unexpected visitors arrive.
This is a bold and powerful drama which explores the implications
of a homosexual lifestyle in contemporary Indian society.
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The Map of Sex and Love
Release year: 2001
Country: Hong Kong
A filmmaker, a dancer, and a
drifting girl meet on Hong Kong's Lamma Island. Their individual
paths take them into each other's lives, dreams and secrets.
These include a traumatic experience in Belgrade, a rubber
band supposed to cure one's homosexual urges, and mysterious
Nazi told allegedly laundered through postwar Macau. At the
end of their journey they seem to realize that the map of
the human heart is circumscribed by the map of the world,
and each person must find his way through the map of sex and
love.
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Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Release year: 1983
Country: USA
A taut psychological drama about
clashing cultures and the human will to survive. A British Army
officer in a Japanese P.O.W. camp wages a war of wills with
his strict and often belligerent captors.
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Midnight
Dancers
Release year: 1994
Country: Philippines
Three Filipino brothers decide
to take jobs as exotic dancers/hustlers in a night club despite
their mother's wishes in this fascinating, detailed exploration
of Manila's gay culture.
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Miguel/Michelle
Release year: 1998
Country: Philippines
Poignant, quirky dramedy about
a young Filipino boy who goes off to America to seek his fortune
and comes home a woman several years — and one sex change
operation — later.
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Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters
Release year: 1985
Country: USA
MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS
is director Paul Schrader's stunning film biography of one of
Japan's most celebrated post-World War II writers--Yukio Mishima.
A fictionalized account in four segments, three of the segments
parallel events in Mishima's life with his novels (THE TEMPLE
OF THE GOLDEN PAVILLION, KYOKO'S HOUSE, and RUNAWAY HORSES),
while the fourth depicts November 25, 1970, the last day of
his life, a day in which he committed two puzzling, stunning
acts--one political, one deeply personal. MISHIMA is an amazing,
disturbing multidimensional character study whose stunning visual
splendor is supported by a riveting score by Philip Glass. It
is a daring film that explores an obsessed artist--and tries
to understand him--through his own writing.
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My Beautiful Launderette
Release year: 1985
Country: Great Britain
MY BEAUTIFUL LAUNDRETTE is a highly
acclaimed and beautifully rendered portrait of two boyhood friends
struggling to survive in racially tense Thatcher-era Britain.
Omar, a homosexual Pakistani boy living in London with his alcoholic
father, lifts a chunk of drug money from another Pakistani and,
with his school chum Johnny, decides to renovate a grungy launderette.
Featuring seething dialogue and visually stunning camera work,
the film explores the world of modern Pakistanis trapped between
two cultures in Thatcher's Britain and their white working class
counterparts with no future in their own country.
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My Loving Trouble 7
Release year: 1991
Country: USA
Jim See-bong is
a depressed, burnt-out director of television commercials.
Part of that probably has to do with pretending to by gay
in order to work in that largely homosexual industry. One
day, while shooting a commercial on the streets of HK, he
accidentally captures Julia on film. Looking over the film,
he realizes that she would be perfect for a perfume commercial.
After looking at her a bit more, he realizes that he is in
love. Eventually, he gets up the courage to confess his love
for her. Julia responds by knocking him out. Of course, this
only makes him love her more. In fact, he is obsessed. He
rents an apartment across the street from her and sets up
electronic surveillance and even bugs her apartment. There
is a problem with all this-Hsu Chi is a spy, and is on a mission.
Julia is a commercial spy who contracts her services out to
companies who want a competitive advantage. Her current mission
is to steal some computer data from a high-security installation.
The film plays out along these lines with Julia and her female
partner, Candy carrying out their mission, while Jim spies
on them.
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My Own Private Idaho
Release year: 1991
Country: USA
A narcoleptic, psychologically-scarred
young man who peddles his body, and his best friend, who also
works the streets though he's from a wealthy political family,
wander together and apart, from Seattle to as far away as Italy.
A loose reworking of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," with Reeves as
the prodigal son who slums in the Pacific Northwest's junkie
lowlife milieu.
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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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