Revenge in Olympia
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A soft-core erotica film with four sexy scenes from the makers of Traveling to Olympia. Dustin is a young gay Vietnamese man who came to America to find his long-lost father, who had come to the US 20 years earlier. Don't expect good acting - you won't get it. Don't expect a coherent storyline with all of the loose ends closed up - you won't get it. Don't expect wild originality - you won't get it. What you will get are soft-core sex scenes and some mindless entertainment with a strongly gay-positive point of view.

 

Rice And Potatoes
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Country:  USA

The complex relationship between gay Asian and Caucasian men is examined in this revealing and entertaining documentary. A diverse selection of 17 Asian, Asian-American and Caucasians are interviewed. Some are couples, others single; most are under 40. They come from different economic and cultural backgrounds but what they share is their cross-racial sexual attraction. The men explain the physical attraction as well as comment about deeper issues, especially the cultural, racial and sexual stereotypes that prevail even among gay men. Other topics include family ties and reactions, communication difficulties in relationships as well as their shared experiences. Their stories range from the humorous and obvious to the academic, from the saucy to the mundane. A simple and direct work that offers much in helping to understand sexual preferences and racial prejudices.

 

Rich Boy, Poor Boy
Release year: 1992
Country:  Philippines

A Filipino Maurice, this romantic and erotic gay love story, banned in The Philippines, is also a melancholy drama of the class problems afflicting the Third World. Mark, a rich, Americanized young man returns from the States to visit his mother at her country estate where he meets and falls in love with Pilo, their hunky servant. Their love blossoms despite Mark's mother's attempts to push young women in his direction and her eventual discovery of the affair. But it is the political turmoil in the countryside that proves to be an even larger obstacle to the naive lovers. Plus: A short film, A Boy Named Cocoy, also directed by de San Paulo, precedes the feature. This entertaining and erotic tale, which plays as a sort of Filipino J.O. fantasy, follows Cocoy, a 20-year-old country boy who arrives in the Big City only to lose all of his clothing and money to thieves. He is saved from a life in the streets by a friendly young man named Tony. And when Cocoy discovers that he is gay, he repays him in the only way he knows how!

 

River
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Country:  Taiwan

Hsiao-kang shares an apartment in Taipei with his parents, but the three of them lead very separate lives. His mother works as an elevator attendant in a restaurant and is having an affair with a man who pirates porn videotapes. Hsiao-kang is drifting through life without a job and is insecure about everything in life, included his sexual identity. His father, a pensioner, pursues a solitary quest for illicit pleasures in the city's gay saunas. As an extra in a film, Hsiao-kang plays a body adrift in the heavily polluted Tamsui River. He begins to suffer a terrible pain in his neck, but no one seems to able to cure him. In desperation, Hsiao-kang travels with his father to Taichung, to visit a faith healer. While waiting to see him, the father gets bored and decides to visit a local men's sauna. Coincidentally, Hsiao-kang has the same idea… The title is explained by director Tsai Ming-liang as "Life is like a river, the further we travel on it, the more dirtier it gets"

 

Road Movie
Release year: 2002
Country:  Korean

Dae-Shik is a homeless man in Seoul who finds financier Suk-Won on the pavement after his business goes under and his wife throws him out in a fit of frustrated rage. Suk-Won is suicidal, but Dae-Shik keeps him alive, and eventually the two hit the road to find work. Along the way, they pick up the chatty prostitute Il-Joo, and here's where things get a bit sticky. Il-Joo is immediately attracted to the hunky, strong and very kind Dae-Shik, but he in turn is completely in love with the more soulful Suk-Won, who is repulsed by these gay overtures and turns to Il-Joo for the comfort he needs. The road to true love is not an easy one with this love triangle.