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From South Korea’s ‘The Handmaiden’ to Taiwan’s ‘Your Name Engraved Herein’, here are the best Asian LGBTQ+ movies to watch this Pride Month.
- Happy Together
- Suk Suk
- Your Name Engraved herein
- Super Deluxe
- Dear Ex
- Lan Yu
- The Handmaiden
- Fathers
- The Wedding Banquet
- Badhaai Do
Wong Kar Wai’s Happy Togetherwas ahead of its time and a massive success. One of the best Asian LGBTQ+ cinematic gems, the story revolves around the journey of protagonists Lai Yiu-Fai (Tony Chiu Wai-Leung) and Ho Po-Wing (the late Leslie Cheung). As the two men find themselves drifting away from each other and their relationship turning toxic, the...
Eschewing the usual recipe of queer films that show young people,Suk Suk, also known as Twilight’s Kiss, depicts the life and journey of two closeted gay men in Hong Kong, who are in their twilight years. Pak (Tai-Bo) is a 70-year-old married man with a grown son and daughter. He drives a cab around the city, which gives him an opportunity to visit...
Helmed by Kuang- Hui Liu, this is a stunning masterpiece made in Taiwan. Released shortly after the country legalised same-sex marriage, Your Name Engraved Hereinbecame one of the highest-grossing and critically acclaimed films in the country. The movie is set in the 1980s when Taiwan had just gotten rid of martial law. Two students, Wang Bo Te (Ts...
One of the most critically acclaimed films in India, Super Deluxeis a Tamil gem that traces four parallel stories. It depicts the perils of four people, each of whom is fighting their own battles. The plot revolves around a transgender woman, Shilpa (Vijay Sethupati) who returns to her family after almost seven years and wishes to meet her son Raas...
After Song Chengxi (Joseph Huang)’s father dies, the young teenager finds out a horrifying truth. He is caught in a feud involving his mother and his deceased father’s insurance benefactor, as well as his gay lover Jay (Roy Chiu). Jay is a free-spirited soul and is posed against Song’s mother who is determined to get the money for her son’s educati...
Covering various themes of commitment issues, attachment, love, Lan Yudepicts issues between a young gay student and a middle-aged businessman. In this Chinese title, director Stanley Kwan shows Lan Yu (Ye Liu) struggling to earn money to fund his studies. At such a juncture, he meets Chen Handong (Jun Hu) at a gay pool hall and is taken by his cha...
Set in 1930s’ Korea, during the Japanese occupation of Korea, a young girl named Sook-Hee (Kim Tae-ri) is hired as a handmaiden to a wealthy Japanese heiress named Lady Hideko (Kim Min-hee). But there’s more than what meets the eyes. The plot revolves around Sook-Hee being puppeteered by a con man posing as Count Fujiwara (Ha Jung-woo). He intends ...
Helmed by Palatpol Mingpornpichit, the film explores the situation of same-sex marriage in Thailand and what it takes to be two fathers of an adopted child. The story follows the life of Phoon (Asda Panichkul) and Yuke (Nat Sakdatorn) who have been a couple for over 13 years. They adopt an infant boy named Butr (Aritach Pipattangkul), who was aband...
Starring Taiwanese actor Winston Chao as Wai-Tung Gao, Mey-Chin as Wei Wei and Mitchell Lichtenstein as Simon, this Ang Lee movie is a romantic comedy that is sure to set a laughter riot. The film charts the life of Wai-Tung who is a Taiwanese immigrant in Manhatten, US, and his gay partner Simon. However, the former’s conservative family insists o...
Director Harshvardhan Kulkarni gives a comic angle to one of the country’s taboo subjects in one of the best LGBTQ+ movies from India. Badhaai Dofollows a closeted gay man, Inspector Shardul Thakur (Rajkummar Rao) and Sumi Singh (Bhumi Pednekar), who has not revealed her sexual orientation to her family either. She is a Physical Education teacher a...
- East Palace, West Palace. 东宫西宫 (dōnggōng xīgōng) (1996), dir. Zhāng Yuán 张元.
- Happy Together. 春光乍泄 (chūnguāng zhà xiè) (1997), dir. Wong Kar-wai (王家卫 Wáng Jiāwèi) East Palace, West Palace wasn’t the only LGBTQ-themed film from the Chinese-language realm to play at the Cannes Film Festival in 1997.
- Men and Women. 男男女女 (nán nán nǚ nǚ) (1999), dir. Liú Bīngjiàn 刘冰鉴. The Beijing-based filmmaker Cui Zi’en is a man of many hats. He’s a professor, an LGBTQ activist, a novelist, the founder of the Beijing Queer Film Festival, and a screenwriter and director whose films are usually offbeat and low-budget.
- Lan Yu. 蓝宇 (Lán Yǔ) (2001), dir. Stanley Kwan (关锦鹏 Guān Jǐnpéng) In 1998, a gay novel called Beijing Comrades (北京故事 Běijīng gùshì) anonymously appeared on the internet.
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May 19, 2023 · With anti-LGBT legislation and anti-Asian bias and racism on the rise, it’s especially important to invest in narratives that celebrate and uplift those of Asian and Asian American descent.
Jun 8, 2022 · From Wong Kar Wai's Happy Together to a forbidden love affair in Japanese-occupied Korea, here are the best queer Asian films to watch this Pride Month.
