Chinese Gay and Lesbian movies, series and documentaries from Taiwan Hong Kong and China (同性恋电影 in 台湾, 香港 and 中国)
A Cinematographic Anthology 1986-2024
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- DirectorKan-Ping YuStarsYueh SunMing-Ming SuHsin ShaoAh-Ching, a young student gets cast off by his parents because he is gay. In a public park in Taipei he finds a group of other young gays and joins them to live in the house of a middle-aged photographer. They form a kind of surrogate family. When Ah-Ching meets Wang Kei-Lung, he falls madly in love.
- DirectorYu-Shan HuangStarsVivian ChenCarrie ChoiTin-Dak ChowTwo teenage girls make a pledge to each other to be as "man and wife" in a small Chinese fishing town.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsWang Yu-wenChen Chao-jungKang-sheng LeeWithin the urban gloom of Taipei, four youths face alienation, loneliness, and moments of existential crisis amidst a series of minor crimes.
- DirectorSheng-Fu ChengStarsYu-Shan LiYi-Chan LuEmily Y. ChangThe Silent Thrush is a fascinating mixture of exoticism and eroticism. It tells the story of Mu Yun (Li Yu-shan), a young woman who joins a Taiwanese opera company. Ka-hung, the company's star actress (who is Mu Yun's childhood idol) soon falls in love with Mu Yun. This provokes the intense jealousy of Ka-hung's longtime lover, Ai-cheng. Their melodrama of lesbian love is played out against the backdrop of the troupe's day-to-day problems.
- DirectorKaige ChenStarsLeslie CheungFengyi ZhangGong LiTwo boys meet at an opera training school in Peking in 1924. Their resulting friendship will span nearly 70 years and endure some of the most troublesome times in China's history.
- DirectorAng LeeStarsWinston ChaoMay ChinAh-Lei GuaTo satisfy his nagging parents, a gay landlord and a female tenant agree to a marriage of convenience, but his parents arrive to visit and things get out of hand.
- DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanChi-Ngai LeeStarsTony Leung Chiu-waiTony Ka Fai LeungLawrence ChengDifferent personalities of three bachelors provide them with three different stories to tell. Tom is torn between a material girl and a prostitute. Dick is a womanizer and eventually gets hurt by his only regular lover. Hairy stumbles along the road of love and is forced to question his own sexuality on the way to finding his dream lover.
- DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanChi LeeStarsLeslie CheungCarina LauAnita YuenA singer is so desperate to meet a famous record producer and his singer girlfriend that she disguises herself as a man, resulting in a wild love triangle.
- DirectorChi-Sing CheungStarsChing Wan LauChristy ChungChristine NgA homely policeman discovers that his woman boss has a lesbian lover. He keeps it a secret, but an associate uses the information to blackmail her.
- DirectorDerek ChiuStarsCharine ChanKenneth ChanKing-Man ChikYoung gay men in Hong Kong. Hoi, Fa, and Kau have been friends since Third Form. They're now young gay adults sharing an apartment. Fa, who writes film scripts, has recently been jilted and is heart-broken. Hoi, who works at an ad agency where he's in the closet, is pursued by Fok May, a female colleague. Kau, effeminate and outgoing, is humiliated in public by his father in front of his brother and sister. He goes on TV to make a plea for acceptance. May learns Hoi is gay and wants to be his friend and his only woman. Under the shadow of AIDS and of prejudice, May and the three guys live out their friendships.
- DirectorTsai Ming-liangStarsChen Chao-jungKang-sheng LeeKuei-Mei YangThree lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.
- DirectorYonfanStarsHiep Thi LeMichael LamGreg-oYoung and innocent Lian is a maid to a rich family in Malaysia. She is then sent to work at a small hotel near Bugis Street in Singapore. She learns about another side of life when encounter with transvestites and transgender individuals.
- DirectorChih-yen YeeStarsBing-Bing PaiJoy Yi-Chun PanNeil PengA group of aimless Taipei residents deal with their personal problems in this Taiwanese drama that does feature brief flashes of black humor. Much of the story centers upon lonely Mrs. Chen who has trouble coping with her philandering husband, and nearly senile mother-in-law. Her daughter frequently sulks and has a desperate crush on one of her teachers. Mrs. Chen's only friend is her co-worker Liu, who has fallen for a new office boy, Chou. Mrs. Chen also finds him attractive. Unfortunately for either woman, Chou is gay and plagued with problems of his own.
- DirectorJohn HauStarsKwok-Pong ChanPauline ChanKevin Cheng
- DirectorYuan ZhangStarsSi HanJun HuJing YeBefore the 1990s P.R.China criminalized the LGBT population. Without family law and marriage law for the LGBT couples, many had to secretly encounter for sexual activities with the risk of police arrests.
- DirectorKei ShuStarsJosephine SiaoAnita YuenDaniel Hiu Tung ChanCross the Hu-du-men - the demarcation between the back and front stage in Cantonese opera, and you leave yourself behind to absorb totally in your character. Lang Kim-sum is a charismatic Cantonese opera star who understands perfectly it's a point of no return once she crosses the Hu-du-men on stage, and in life as well. Respected by colleagues and friends and about to retire, Lang has yet to face new, unexpected Hu-du-men's in domestic and professional life. Husband Chan suddenly wants to immigrate. Daughter Mimi has a lesbian relationship. At work, her progressive opera director causes havoc in reforming a traditional art. Lang's protege Ip Yuk-sheung chooses between career and love, and a secret of Lang's past also surfaces. Lang, the quintessential master of vicissitudes on stage and in life, braves new crises and dilemma with gentle and light-hearted flair.
- DirectorJo-Fei ChenStarsAn-Chen ChiuChih-xing WenKo, a young gay writer living in Taipei has written a story about his homosexuality, and his teacher encourages him to enter it in a prestigious writing competition. Now Ko must decide whether to enter the competition or stay in the closet.
- DirectorPeter Ho-Sun ChanStarsLeslie CheungAnita MuiAnita YuenSam and Wing get together after falling in love, only to be followed by other love related complications.
- DirectorTsai-sheng WangStarsJulien ChenChieh-i ChenTsung-sien HeA bisexual artist is waiting to move to New York City to be with his male lover while living with his girlfriend in a sumptuous loft in Taipei. In order to save enough money to implement the trip to New York, he joins the dancing group that formed part of the fat stripteaser's show. Later on, he takes his girlfriend to Yenshui for the firecracker festival and happens to witness a weird murder with video recorder in hand. He then becomes the target of the mysterious killer.
- DirectorKei ShuStarsGeorge LamJordan ChanChristine NgFrom an unhappy childhood experience, Law Ka Sing decisively hides his homosexual identity. Sing's partner of 8 years, young boyfriend Sunny is just the opposite, he has never minded publicly revealing his identity.
- DirectorKar-Wai WongStarsLeslie CheungTony Leung Chiu-waiChang ChenA couple take a trip to Argentina but both men find their lives drifting apart in opposite directions.
- DirectorChi Leung 'Jacob' CheungStarsCarina LauCharlie YeungAh-Lei GuaFoon escapes an arranged marriage by walking the road of a Ji Sor. After an affair with Shing, she becomes pregnant. An attempted abortion nearly costs Foon her life. Wan, the young owner of a silk factory, rescues her. Wan and Foon share their romances, reflecting the experience of women during the 40's.
- DirectorCheng-sheng LinStarsRene LiuJing TsengChin-Hsin TsaiA rather dejected Mei-li Chen lives with her extended family in the suburbs. She drops out of college when the boy she has a crush on finds a girlfriend. Mei-li eventually ends up selling tickets in a movie theatre. A great camaraderie then builds up between the two cashiers in the small ticket booth.
- DirectorStanley KwanStarsStanley KwanStanley Kwan's view in this film is both personal and collective memories towards Hong Kong in 1997. He cites one famous line from Cantonese opera "Princess Chang Ping", "I deny, I deny, but in the end I cannot deny" as a metaphor for Hong Kongers' troubled minds when they have to recognize their identity as Chinese. To make a statement of the theme, Kwan adopts a complicated structure, mixing excerpts from his previous films, his stage play, even the soundtrack of Wong Kar-wai's Days of Being Wild.