Gay film asian
With more LGBTQ+ visibility on screen over the years here in Asia – from lighthearted comedies and heartwarming tearjerkers to thought-provoking masterpieces – we’ve curated a list of must-watch Asian Queer films and TV shows that test stereotypes and search what it’s love to be both queer and Asian.
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10 great gay films from east and south-east Asia
Our list includes films from across east and south-east Asia, including works from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. Gay rights, and representation of gay men on screen, vary hugely from country to state, offering a rich diversity of fascinating movies. Films that would have made the cut had they been more easily accessible include Stanley Kwan’s romantic tragedy Lan Yu (), the flawed but fascinating Filipino crime drama Macho Dancer (), and two Japanese ‘pink cinema’ titles – Beautiful Mystery () and I Like You, I Like You Very Much ().
If east and south-east Asian films about gay men rarely make it to DVD, films about lesbians are rarer still. The groundbreaking Fish and Elephant () is hard to find, Blue Gate Crossing () is out of print, while All about Love () and the award-winning Spider Lilies () didn’t get a British DVD release. We long for that, with classic dyke titles becoming increasingly prosperous, albeit at a shamefully slow rate, a future list on gay female east Asian films will appe
VIFF Gay Asian films travel world of prostitution1 min read
Reading Time: < 1minuteQuite a number of queer-interest films at this year&#;s Vancouver International Film Festival hail from Asia as part of the &#;Dragons and Tigers&#; program. Since LGBT communities are gaining ground in countries here, we&#;ll inevitably see more and more media representations of gay life surface from them.
Prostitution happens to be a common thread in three out of VIFF&#;s four Asian queer-interest selections this year. The exception is Japan&#;s Our Future, about a tomboyish girl who is bullied at school for existence too masculine.
In the Filipino thriller Señorita, for example, a transgender surrogate mother and upscale hooker moves to a smalltown where she gets caught up in the politics surrounding an imminent election.
But far from glamorizing the business, making it appear sexy, or sugarcoating things, two of the films save a particularly fixed eye on the consequences and complications of working in the sex trade.
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